Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin babban zaben 1996, shi ne kawai dan takarar da doka ta ba shi damar tsayawa takara. Sudan ta zama jihar jam'iyya daya a karkashin Jam'iyyar National Congress Party (NCP). A shekarun 1990, Hassan al-Turabi, sa'annan Shugaban Majalisar Dokoki, ya kai ga kungiyoyin musulmi masu tsattsauran ra'ayi, ya gayyaci Osama bin Laden zuwa kasar. Daga baya Amurka ta lissafa Sudan a matsayin kasa mai tallafawa ta'addanci. Bayan harin bam din da Al Qaeda ta kai kan ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka a Kenya da Tanzania
Amurka ta kaddamar da Operation Infinite Reach kuma ta yi niyya ga masana'antar magunguna ta Al-Shifa wadda gwamnatin Amurka ta yi imani da cewa tana samar da makamai masu guba ga kungiyar 'yan ta'adda. Tasirin Al-Turabi ya fara raguwa, wasu masu goyon bayan shugabancin da ya fi dacewa sun yi kokarin canza kebewar Sudan a duniya. Kasar ta yi aiki don kwantar da hankalin masu sukar ta ta hanyar korar membobin kungiyar Jihad ta Musulunci ta Masar da kuma karfafa bin Laden ya bar.