ABSTRACT
Since it’s independence from the Anglo-Egyptian colonial forces, Sudan has been grappling with the institutionalization of a stable political system. Erratic alternating periods of fragile democratic governments and military regimes characterized polity in Sudan. Starting with a short transitional government in 1956 with Ismail El-Azhari as President, it was followed by Abdalla Khalil of the Umma Party with the elections of 1957, only to be overthrown on November 17, 1958, by a military coup headed by General Ibrahim Aboud. Aboud’s regime, with the help of USAID and the World Bank, did build some infrastructure and development projects in the central regions of the country, but failed miserably in developing the peripheries of the country.
