Omar al-Tayib
Sudanese soldier and politician (died 2023)
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Lieutenant General Omar Mohamed al-Tayib was a Sudanese soldier and politician.[1]
Lieutenant general Omar al-Tayib | |
|---|---|
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 |
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]
