Ibrahim Abboud
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Ibrahim Abboud was a Sudanese military officer and political figure who served as the head of state of Sudan between 1958 and 1964 and as President of Sudan in 1964; however, he soon resigned, ending
Ibrahim Abboud during his visit to Yugoslavia, July 1960
Ibrahim Abboud with President Kennedy at the White House, 1961
Sudan Defence Force
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The Sudan Defence Force was a formation of the British Colonial Auxiliary Forces raised in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1925 to assist local police in internal security duties and maintain the condomin
Ibrahim Abboud
…at the Gordon Memorial College and at the Military College in Khartoum. He received a commission in the Egyptian Army in 1918 and transferred to the Sudan Defence Force in 1925, after its creation separate from the Egyptian army. During World War II he served in Eritrea, in Ethiopia, with the Sudan Defence Force, and…
Undated photo of inspection of SDF honour guard by Chief of the Imperial General Staff.