This African country, which we had not heard of before, has become familiar to us both on television and on the radio with the recent coup d’etat.. And where is Sudan? On which continent? Let’s take a look at them first for those who don’t know:
Africa’s 3 largest. This country, which has its own lands, is quite far from Turkey.. The capital of Sudan (officially the Republic of Sudan or Northern Sudan), an East African country, is Khartoum. This country, which takes about 13-14 hours by direct flight from our country, is neighbors to Egypt from the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Ethiopia and Eritrea to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic and Chad to the west, and Libya to the northwest.
The Nile. The river divides Sudan into Western and Eastern Sudan.. Around the Raphadia region of the capital Khartoum, the White River and the Blue river converge.
Historical BC.. This African country, which dates back to 5000 years, was divided into South and North in 2011.. Approximately 24% of the country with a population of 31 million is covered with arid desert lands.. Although it has mostly desert lands, it has underground riches such as oil, natural gas, iron, copper, chromium, zinc, lead, nickel, silver and gold.
Omer Hasan El Bashir and Its Role in Sudanese Politics
Omer Hasan al-Bashir, who came to power with a military coup nearly 20 years ago, started to rule Sudan with an iron fist.. Beşir, who was born in 1944, rose to the rank of general after successfully graduating from military schools.
Civil war has been reigning in the country for 21 years and Bashir could not do much to stop this war.. In this context, he signed a peace agreement with the Sudan People’s Liberation Front, but he never saw this agreement as a defeat and did not launch it.. While approximately 2 million refugees took shelter in the camps, around 200 thousand refugees took refuge in the neighboring country of Chad.
Famine, misery and epidemics were rampant in the country.. According to the research carried out in 2006, it was determined that approximately 200 thousand people died from infectious diseases.. However, Beşir claimed that this number was only 10 thousand people.
The protests against Beşir, which started with small reactions in December 2018, grew like an avalanche. In April 2019, the Presidency and the state television building in the capital Khartoum were surrounded by putschists who defined themselves as the Military Transitional Council. Sudanese President Omar Hasan al-Bashir and his deputy Defense Minister Avad Bin Avf were arrested.
With this coup, the term of Bashir, who came to the Sudanese administration with the coup, came to an end.
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