The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training just posted an oral history titled "When the Sudanese Autocrat Met President Reagan and Lost His Job" with William Pierce, U.S. embassy Khartoum political officer at the time.
This is a first hand account of the overthrow in 1985 of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry while he was in the United States on a visit with President Ronald Reagan. William Pierce offers background to this development.
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Sudan: Oral History When President Nimeiry Met President Reagan and Lost His Job
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training at the Foreign Service Institute just published an interesting account titled "When the Sudanese Autocrat Met President Reagan and Lost his Job" based on an oral history by William Pierce, political officer at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum at the time.
President Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry had departed Khartoum for the United States for a meeting with President Ronald Reagan. Ambassador Hume Horan had also gone to Washington to participate in the meeting. I was charge d'affaires in Khartoum in the absence of the ambassador. Nimeiry was removed from power during his absence and did not return to Sudan until many years later.
President Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry had departed Khartoum for the United States for a meeting with President Ronald Reagan. Ambassador Hume Horan had also gone to Washington to participate in the meeting. I was charge d'affaires in Khartoum in the absence of the ambassador. Nimeiry was removed from power during his absence and did not return to Sudan until many years later.
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