 Prime Minister, 10 June, 1965 - 25 July, 1966 Prime Minister, 18 May, 1967 - 25 May, 1969 Mohamed Ahmad Mahgoub, Sudanese political leader. Born in 1908, in Al-Dueim, by profession he was a lawyer and a judge, he is a Sudanese political leader. A Civil Engineer graduate of Gordon Memorial College (Khartoum), he was a prominent Lawyer (1958 - 1964). He was at the centre of most of the principal upheavals in the Middle-East, such as the Suez crisis in 1956 and the Six-Day War in 1967, as well as many turbulent events in emergant Africa. He was a pioneer of Sudan's independence from Anglo-Egyptian Condominium rule on January 1st 1956. He then became Foreign Minister in July 1956 in which he was ousted in the first Sudanese Army coup led by General Ibrahim Abboud in November 1958. He joined and became the leader of the 1964 revolution which threw out the Army junta, he then became the Foreign Minister till May 1965, and then as Prime Minister in June 1965 till July 1966, and again between May 1967 and May 1969. On the 25th of May 1969 came the second Army coup led by Colonel Gaafar Mohamad Numeiry which overthrew the civilian government of Mahgoub. He was also known as a Poet and writer. He authored several books, articles and studies, among them: Democracy on Trial (An assessment of the Sudanese political experience till 1969 and the inside story of the Arab-African political scene.) and "Lost Paradise" (Poetry). He was awarded the Ar-Rafidain award in Iraq, and Al-Kawkab award in Jordan for his writing and contribution to education. Mahgoub himself has lived in self-exile in London , then returned to Sudan. He died a natural death at his residence in Khartoum , Sudan on June 23rd 1976. |