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3 Brown J. World Aff. 133 (1996)
Sudan: Islamists Entrenched

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa3 and id is 561 raw text is: Sudan: Islamists Entrenched LucIEN S. VANDENBROUCKE Visiting Professor of Social Science at the United States Military Academy On June 30, 1989 a few score Sudanese Armed Forces personnel overthrew Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi in a bloodless coup, ending the four years of democracy Sudan had experienced after the fall of Jaafar al-Nimeiry's dictatorship in 1985. While mourning the passing of political freedoms that the coup heralded, few Sudanese lamented the fall of a regime which many believed had devoted more energy to internecine bickering than to addressing the problems of Sudan, one of Africa's poorest nations. As the new rulers consolidated their grip, it be- came clear that Sudan's Islamist movement, the National Islamic Front (NIF) and its followers in the military, not the armed forces as a whole, held the reins of power. The NIF, committed to the establishment of an Islamic state, had been active, in one guise or another, in Sudanese politics since the late 1950s. Like many other Islamist movements, it drew its strongest support from the country's young and its modernized middle class. Under the shrewd leadership of Hassan Turabi, a Sorbonne-educated intellectual, the NIF fashioned itself into a mass political party, winning 17 percent of the popu- lar vote in the 1986 elections. At the heart of the NIF, however, was a hard The views in this article are the author's own, and do not necessarily represent the views of the State Department, the Department of the Army, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, or any other U.S. government agency or organization. Summer 1996 - Volume Il, Issue 2

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