13217. POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND THE FAILURE OF THE SUDANESE REGIME. Following a brief background discussion of Sudan's political structure, this report examines the causes of Sudan's chronic political instability and its threatened disintegration. Traces key causal factors in the failure to form a national identity, looking back to the 1820 Turko-Egyptian invasion and forward to the failure of the 1972 Addis Ababa Accord during the Numeiri regime. Examines the continued failure to create an accountable government among the successive regimes, with particular emphasis on the disruptive influences of the Numeiri regime and the current regime officially led by President Omar al Bashir but under the defacto leadership of NIF founder and speaker of the parliament Hassan al-Turabi. A concluding section considers the prospects for a future in Sudan. 14p., 41f., 14b.