Following the 1989 Sudanese coup d'état which brought Omar al-Bashir to power, a coalition of opposition groups formed the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), in order to coordinate resistance to the new government. In 2001, an NDA commander made contact with the South African Bikisha Media Collective and requested information on anarchist organization and tactics, to which the collective responded by directing them towards the theoretical works of platformism. The civil war was eventually ended in 2005 by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, after which the NDA signed a deal with the government to cease hostilities. The peace deal and subsequent legalisation of opposition parties caused a fracture within the Sudanese Communist Party, leading certain far-left tendencies inspired by Maoism and libertarian communism to break away from the party. Sudanese anarchists were reportedly among the participants in the Sudanese Revolution, protesting first against the government of Omar al-Bashir and then against the Transitionary Military Council after Bashir was deposed in the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.