Gaafar al-Nimeiry, who died on May 30 aged 79, survived as ruler of Sudan for 16 years – a considerable tribute to his ability to trim his sails according to the vagaries of the political weather.

With friends like the United States, Gaafar Nimeiry hardly needed the enemies who ousted him as the president of the Sudan this month. Since the Sudan coup April 6, much has been made of Nimeiry`s ...

President Gaafar Nimeiry said Sunday that Ethiopian Jews and all other refugees living in Sudanese camps were free to leave the country, provided they do not go directly to Israel.”If they come ...

Sudanese military officers carry the body of former president Gaafar Nimeiry during his funeral procession in Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city, on May 31, 2009 (Getty) Nimeiry body body was ...

Sudan: former President Abdulrahman Siwar al-Dahab dies aged 83. Abdulrahman Siwar al-Dahab, who led the removal of Gaafar Nimeiry in 1985, died at a military hospital in Riyadh.

When army colonel Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry seized power in Sudan’s first coup in 1969, he coddled Sudan’s artistic elite. His patronage drew from leftist politics, inspired by Egypt’s Gamal ...

Gaafar al-Nimeiry, who died on May 30 aged 79, survived as ruler of Sudan for 16 years – a considerable tribute to his ability to trim his sails according to the vagaries of the political weather.