Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub

Prime Minister of Sudan (1965–1966, 1967–1969)

محمد أحمد المحجوب

Mahgoub in 1965

5th Prime Minister of SudanIn office
10 June 1965 – 25 July 1966PresidentIsmail al-AzhariPreceded bySirr Al-Khatim Al-KhalifaSucceeded bySadiq al-MahdiIn office
18 May 1967 – 25 May 1969PresidentIsmail al-AzhariPreceded bySadiq al-MahdiSucceeded byBabiker AwadallaForeign Minister of SudanIn office
1956–1958Preceded byMubarak ZaroukSucceeded bySayed Ahmad KeirIn office
1964–1965Preceded bySayed Ahmad KeirSucceeded byMuhammad Ibrahim KhalilIn office
1967–1968Preceded byIbrahim al-MuftiSucceeded byAli Abdel Rahman al-Amin Personal detailsBorn(1908-05-17)17 May 1908
Ed Dueim, Anglo-Egyptian SudanDied23 June 1976(1976-06-23) (aged 68)
Khartoum, SudanPolitical partyNational Umma Party

Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub (Arabic: محمد أحمد المحجوب, romanized: Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Maḥjūb; 17 May 1908^[1] – 23 June 1976^[2]) was both Foreign Minister and then the 5th Prime Minister of Sudan. He was also an important Sudanese literary writer, who published several volumes of poetry and literary criticism in Arabic.^[3]

He was born in the city of Ed Dueim in 1908. He moved to Khartoum at the age of seven. Mahgoub graduated from engineering school in 1929 and in 1938, he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Gordon Memorial College. He was elected to parliament in 1946. After independence, Mahgoub was foreign minister between 1956 and 1958, and then again between 1964 and 1965. In 1965, he was elected Prime Minister, but was subsequently forced to resign. In 1967, he was elected Prime Minister for the second time and served in that position until 1969.

His war policy in South Sudan was characterized by extreme brutality and the indiscriminate use of terror, reaching levels of violence never before experienced in the south. His campaigns, which included massacres against southern civilians and looting that destroyed entire towns, have been described by some scholars as genocidal and have been compared to the methods of Alphonse de Malzac, a 19th-century European White Nile slave-raider.^[4]

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^ "Index Ma-Mam". www.rulers.org. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
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