Editing Gaafar Nimeiry (section)

==Early life and education==
Nimeiry was educated at the Omdurman primary and elementary school, then in [[Wad Madani]] secondary school, and finally in Hantub school that had a British colonial character. He then studied at [[Khartoum University|Khartoum University College]], but, as he desired a military career,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sudanway.sd/charact_nomeiri.htm |title=????? |access-date=18 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627044749/http://www.sudanway.sd/charact_nomeiri.htm |archive-date=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  he eventually graduated from the [[War College (Sudan)|War College]] in Omdurman in 1952. He also earned a Master of Military Science from [[United States Army Command and General Staff College|Army Command and General Staff College]] in [[Fort Leavenworth]], [[Kansas]], [[United States]] in 1966.<ref name=jessup>{{cite book|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996|author=John E. Jessup|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1998|pages=530–531|isbn=9780313281129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&pg=PA531}}</ref>

Nimeiri moved on to different positions in the [[Sudanese Army]]. He was accused in 1957 of orchestrating a [[1957 Sudanese coup attempt|coup d'état]] against the Sudanese government,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA4ZAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Kabeida%22 |title=Who's who in Africa: The Political, Military and Business Leaders of Africa |date=1973 |publisher=African Development |isbn=978-0-9502755-0-5 |language=en}}</ref> but there was not enough evidence to prove that he was involved. He was interrogated again about a failed coup attempt led by an officer named Khalid Yusuf, but the investigation did not find anything to criminalize Nimeiry in the attempted coup.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

On 28 December 1966, Lieutenant Hussein Osman with other young Communist officers tried to seize the presidential palace and the central post office, but failed. Among the 400 people arrested after the coup attempt failed was Colonel Gaafar Nimeiry, then commanding the Eastern Command. He was released on 9 January 1967 and transferred to command the infantry school.<ref>O'Ballance, Secret War in the Sudan, F&F, 1973, 93.</ref>