Omar al-Tayib
Lieutenant general Omar al-Tayib | |
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عمر الطيب | |
| First Vice President of Sudan | |
| In office January 1982 – April 1985 | |
| President | Jaafar Nimeiry |
| Preceded by | Abdul Majid Khalil |
| Succeeded by | Taj el-Deen Abdallah Fadl (as Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Military Council) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1933 Al-Zaydab, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan |
| Died | July 2023 (aged 89–90) Cairo, Egypt |
| Military service | |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
Lieutenant General Omar Mohamed al-Tayib was a Sudanese soldier and politician.[1]
Al-Tayib was born in 1933 in Al-Zaydab village in Northern Sudan.[2] He was educated at the Military College of Sudan.[2] He was eventually promoted as Lieutenant General of Sudanese Army.[3]
During the Nimeiry era, al-Tayib was one of the Vice Presidents (1981–1982)[4], and then First Vice President (1982–1985)[5] and Nimeiry's powerful head of State Security Organization.[6] Al-Tayib deputized Nimeiry when he was ill. Al-Tayib was also described to be a close friend of Abdul Majid Khalil.[2]
Al-Tayib lost his political power when Nimeiry was ousted in April 1985. Al-Tayib was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1986[1] in an allegedly politically motivated trial. He emigrated to Saudi-Arabia at that time, and returned to Sudan in 2000.[2] He died in Cairo in July 2023.[3][1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Ex-Sudanese first vice president dies". Sudans Post. 13 July 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 "اللواء عمر محمد الطيب". sudanway.sd. Archived from the original on 5 July 2014.
- 1 2 "نعاه مجلس السيادة.. الموت يغيب النائب الأول الأسبق لرئيس الجمهورية الفريق عمر محمد الطيب". الطابية-شبكة إخبارية سودانية (in Arabic).
- ↑ Sudan Presidency: Vice–Presidents of the Republic Archived 24 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Sudan Presidency: The First Vice–Presidents of the Republic Archived 24 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Collins, Robert O. (2005). Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan: Essays on the Sudan, Southern Sudan and Darfur, 1962 - 2004. Tsehai Publishers. ISBN 978-0-9748198-7-7.
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