Islamic National Front

political party, The Sudan

Also known as: NIF, National Islamic Front

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In Sudan: The rise of Muslim fundamentalism
…of the party, renamed the Islamic National Front (NIF). Turābī methodically charted the Brotherhood and the NIF on a course of action designed to seize control of the Sudanese government despite the Muslim fundamentalists’ lack of popularity with the majority of the Sudanese people. Tightly disciplined, superbly organized, and inspired…
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In South Sudan: Resumption of civil war
…was a vehicle for the National Islamic Front (NIF), an Islamist political party with a fundamentalist agenda. Bashir and his colleagues ruthlessly imprisoned hundreds of political opponents and vigorously continued the war in the south, limited in their efforts only by the constraints of the deteriorating national economy. The army…
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