1958 Sudanese coup d'état

A bloodless military coup d'état took place in Sudan on 17 November 1958. Orchestrated as a self-coup by the sitting prime minister, Abdallah Khalil, the maneuver preempted a parliamentary vote that would have ousted his government. The coup dissolved the democratic apparatus established after the country's independence, transferring power to the Sudanese Armed Forces under the command of General Ibrahim Abboud and establishing Sudan's first military dictatorship.