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The Revolutionary Command Council was the body that ruled Sudan after the coup d'état in May 1969. It was disbanded in October 1971.

Initially Babiker Awadalla, a lawyer, served as Premier, but was then moved by Maj-Gen Gaafar Nimeiry to become deputy chair of the council on 26 November 1969.^[1] Joseph Garang, a southerner, was also on the council in its initial days.

The other members (1970) were as follows:^[2]

• Farouk Hamadallah (Purged in 1970)
• Khalid Hassan Abbas
• Mamoun Awad
• Abul Kassem Hashem
• Muhammad Ahmed Abd al-Qadir
• Abul Kassem Ibrahim
• Abu Bakr al-Nur (Purged in 1970)
• Hashem al Atta (Purged in 1970)

• Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council
• Libyan Revolutionary Command Council
• Revolutionary Command Council (Iraq)

• O'Ballance, Edgar (1977). The Secret War in the Sudan: 1955–1972. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-10768-0.