Editing Gaafar Nimeiry (section)

=== 1976 Sudanese coup d'état attempt ===
{{See also|1976 Sudanese coup d'état attempt}}
In 1976, a force of one thousand insurgents under Sadiq al Mahdi, armed and trained by [[Libya]], crossed the border from [[Ma'tan as-Sarra]].  After passing through [[Darfur]] and [[Kordofan]], the insurgents engaged in three days of house-to-house fighting in Khartoum and [[Omdurman]] that killed some 3,000 people and sparked national resentment against the Libyan leader [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. Nimeiry and his government were narrowly saved after a column of army tanks entered the city.<ref name="Burr and Collins 111">Burr, J. Millard and Robert O. Collins, ''Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster'', Markus Wiener Publishers: Princeton, 2006, {{ISBN|1-55876-405-4}}, p. 111</ref> Ninety-eight people implicated in the plot were executed.<ref name="nyt" />