The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Organization of Sudan ( ar, حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي - تنظيم في السودان ''Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī - Tanẓīm fī al-Sūdān'') is the regional branch of the Damascus-based Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Sudan. During the 1980s, the party was called ''Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Organization of Sudan'' (differentiating it from the pro-Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Region of Sudan). The party contested the 1986 election as part of the Sudanese Progressive National Front. The party held its third regional congress in

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on February 5–6, 2009. The congress elected Al-Tijani Mustafa Yassin as regional secretary, an 11-member Regional Command and a 23-member Central Committee. The congress stated that the party sought cooperation with the National Congress Party for the sake of forming a national front. The party staunchly opposed independence of

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