Anti-government discontent results in a general strike…
1985 CE
Demonstrators oppose rising food, gasoline, and transport costs.
The general strike paralyzes the country.
Nimeiry, who is on a visit to the United States, is unable to suppress the rapidly growing demonstrations against his regime.
A bloodless military coup led by his defense minister Geeral Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab ousts him from power.
At the subsequent elections the pro-Islamist leader Sadiq al-Mahdi (who had attempted a coup against Nimeiry in 1976) becomes Prime Minister.
