SCP-linked 1971 coup against Nimeiry fails; party leaders executed

On 19 July 1971 officers led by Hashem al-Atta, close to the Sudanese Communist Party, briefly seized power from Jaafar Nimeiry. Nimeiry loyalists retook Khartoum within three days; he then blamed the SCP and executed several of its leaders, including secretary-general Abdel Khaliq Mahjub and union leader al-Shafie Ahmed el-Sheikh — a blow from which the party never fully recovered.

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Sudanese Communist Party

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Gara, T. (2026). SCP-linked 1971 coup against Nimeiry fails; party leaders executed [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/16e85951-e15d-40a4-8263-1001843ac2f0

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "SCP-linked 1971 coup against Nimeiry fails; party leaders executed." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/16e85951-e15d-40a4-8263-1001843ac2f0.

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@misc{tayyar-event-16e85951-e15d-40a4-8263-1001843ac2f0,
  title     = {{SCP-linked 1971 coup against Nimeiry fails; party leaders executed}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/16e85951-e15d-40a4-8263-1001843ac2f0},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 1971-07-19. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 1971-07-19. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.