[3][4] In 1964, he provided the drive to start the October Revolution by siding against the military in charge of Sudan.

[4] In 1967, Awadalla resigned from his position as Chief Justice in protest of the government's refusal to reinstate the Sudanese Communist Party, which the nation's courts had held to be unconstitutionally banned from parliament.

[7] In Gaafar Nimeiry's military cabinet, Awadalla was the only civilian member on the National Revolutionary Command Council.

[1] During a General Assembly meeting on 23 September 1969, Awadalla warned that the United States's decision of supporting Israel during the Arab-Israel conflict could provoke the use of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

[8] After 1972 Awadalla moved to Egypt, and later Dublin, Ireland, where he was reported to be living in May 2017 and became a centenarian in the same year.