A military coup occurs in Sudan on…
November 1958 CE
Abdallah Khalil, himself a retired army general, had planned the preemptive coup in conjunction with leading Umma members and the army's two senior generals, Ibrahim Abboud and Ahmad Abd al Wahab, who become leaders of the military regime.
Abboud immediately pledges to resolve all disputes with Egypt, including the long-standing problem of the status of the Nile River.
Abboud abandons the previous government's unrealistic policies regarding the sale of cotton.
He also appoints a constitutional commission, headed by the chief justice, to draft a permanent constitution.
Abboud maintains, however, that political parties only serve as vehicles for personal ambitions and that they will not be reestablished when civilian rule is restored.
