The 1990 Sudanese coup d'état attempt was a bloodless coup attempt which took place in

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

on 23 April 1990. Reportedly orchestrated by two retired

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officers, Major General Abdul Gadir al Kadaru and Brigadier Mohamed Osman Karrar, and planned by junior officers loyal to them, the coup attempt was directed against the RCCNS, the ruling

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led by Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir (who himself took power in the 1989 coup d'état). According to Bashir, loyalist troops foiled the coup attempt by striking before the plotters could make their move, crushing the coup bid 'in its cradle'. He also claimed the plotters were 'in alliance with the rebels' of the SPLA, a predominantly

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group that waged the then-ongoing civil war against the

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-led central government. The

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ian news agency

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said there were unconfirmed reports of an exchange of gunfire at the

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and the Armed Forces headquarters during the coup attempt. Officials said about 30 officers and retired officers had been arrested.

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