ABSTRACT
Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir, who formed a Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) from fifteen middle to lower ranking officers. In 1992, the RCC appointed a Transitional National Assembly to act as a legislative authority until the election of a legislative chamber. In 1993, the RCC dissolved itself and appointed Umar al-Bashir as president of the Republic. A state-organised Conference on National Dialogue held in 1989 opted for a federal administrative structure, which was subsequently decreed by president al-Bashir and the country was divided to about twenty-six states. The ascent of the Islamists may be put in perspective through a quick review of the movement’s history and development. The major impact of these reforms has been a radical expansion in the education system that in turn greatly increased the number of pupils, school leavers and students in higher education. The regime’s conspicuous failure to ‘revolutionise’ the Sudanese society was clearly manifested in the field of socio-economic development.
