{"id":18980,"date":"2018-10-18T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18980"},"modified":"2018-10-18T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:25:51","slug":"sudan-ex-president-abdulrahman-suwar-al-dahab-dies-aged-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18980","title":{"rendered":"Sudan ex-president Abdulrahman Suwar al-Dahab dies aged 83"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Sudanese president Abdulrahman Suwar al-Dahab has died in Saudi Arabia<\/a>, Sudan’s state news agency (SUNA) reports.<\/p>\n

The 83 year-old former leader died at a military hospital in Riyadh<\/span>, the agency said on Thursday, without providing further details.<\/p>\n

Dahab, a former military officer, was defence minister before he led a coup in 1985 to overthrow Jaafar Nimeiri, who had been president since 1969.<\/p>\n

When Dahab took power, he promised to hold elections in a year’s time, a pledge few believed in a country exhausted by civil war. The following year, he handed power over to a newly elected government headed by then Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi.<\/p>\n

Al-Dahab then resigned from the political arena, devoting himself entirely to religious issues and becoming chairman of the Khartoum-based Islamic Organization.<\/p>\n

In 1972, he served as advisor to the then emir of Qatar, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani<\/a>, after being abruptly expelled from Sudan, without explanation<\/p>\n

Sudan<\/a>‘s current president, Omar al-Bashir<\/a>, who has been in power for nearly 30 years has previously said he will step down in 2020 and has not explicitly stated his intention to run again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Sudanese president Abdulrahman Suwar al-Dahab has died in Saudi Arabia, Sudan’s state news agency (SUNA) reports. The 83 year-old former leader died at a military hospital in Riyadh, the agency said on Thursday, without providing further details. Dahab, a former military officer, was defence minister before he led a coup in 1985 to overthrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}