Biography of Ibrahim Abboud, El Ferik
Name: Ibrahim Abboud, El Ferik
Birth Date: October 26, 1900
Death Date: September 8, 1983
Place of Birth: Mohammed-Gol, Sudan
Nationality: Sudanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: general, commander in chief
Ibrahim Abboud, El Ferik
El Ferik Ibrahim Abboud (1900-1983) was a military leader who instituted the first military government of the independent Sudan, but who yielded to civilian rule when he was unable to solve the country's problems.Ibrahim Abboud was born on Oct. 26, 1900, at Mohammed-Gol, near the old port city of Suakin on the Red Sea. He trained as an engineer at the Gordon Memorial College and at the Military College in Khartoum. He received a commission in the Egyptian army in 1918 and transferred to the Sudan Defense Force in 1925, after its creation separate from the Egyptian army. During World War II he served in Eritrea, in Ethiopia, with the Sudan Defense Force, and with the British army in North Africa. After the war, Abboud rose rapidly to commander of the Sudan Defense Force in 1949 and assistant commander in chief in 1954. With the declaration of independence for the Sudan in 1956, he was made commander …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…criticism of all aspects of the administration. The government banned these debates, precipitating student demonstrations in which one student was killed. The situation rapidly deteriorated, and within two days the civil service and the transport workers were on strike. Demonstrations followed in the provinces. Rather than suppress the opposition by armed force and bloodshed, Abboud dissolved his government on Oct. 26, 1964, and called for the formation of a provisional cabinet to replace the Supreme Council. Abboud himself was forced to resign on Nov. 15 in favor of a civilian provisional government, and he retreated into retirement, thus ending the Republic of the Sudan's first period of military rule.Abboud lived in Britain for several years, but died in Khartoum on Sept. 8, 1983, at the age of 82. Further Reading Abboud is discussed in Rolf Italiaander, The New Leaders of Africa (1960; trans. 1961); Thomas Patrick Melady, Faces of Africa (1964); and Kenneth D.D. Henderson, Sudan Republic (1966).
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