Vice President of Sudan

The Vice President of Sudan is the second highest political position obtainable in Sudan. Currently there is a provision for one de facto Vice President, Deputy Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, who is appointed by the Chairman of the Council. Historically (in the 1972–1983 and 2005–2011 periods) either the First or the Second Vice President was from Southern Sudan (now independent South Sudan). From 2011 until the abolition of the post in 2019, the Second Vice President was from Darfur.

Vice President of the Republic of Sudan
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Incumbent Lt. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Deputy Chairman of the Sovereignty Council since 21 August 2019
Member of	Sovereignty Council
Residence	Khartoum, Sudan
Appointer	Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Lt. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
Term length	39 months[1]
Formation	May 1969 (First Vice President)
First holder	Babiker Awadalla (First Vice President)

Vice Presidents

First Vice Presidents

Title	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Party		President		Refs
Deputy Chairman of the NRCC		Babiker Awadalla	May 1969	1971		Independent		Jaafar Nimeiry	[2]
Vice President		Abel Alier [lower-alpha 1]	1971	1972		Southern Front
First Vice President		Major Gen. Mohamed Al-Baghir Ahmed	1972	1976		Military / Sudanese Socialist Union			[2][3]
		Major Abuelgasim Mohamed Hashim	1976	1979		Military / Sudanese Socialist Union			[2]
		Lt. General Abdul Majid Hamid Khalil	1979	1982		Military / Sudanese Socialist Union			[4][2]
		Major Gen. Omar Muhammad al-Tayib [lower-alpha 2]	1982	April 1985		Military / Sudanese Socialist Union			[5][2]
Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Military Council		Taj el-Deen Abdallah Fadl	April 1985	May 1986				Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab	[6]
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council		Abd al-Rahman Saeed	1986	1989				Ahmed al-Mirghani
Deputy Chairman of the RCCNS		Major Gen. Zubair Mohamed Salih	June 1989	October 1993		Military / National Congress Party		Omar al-Bashir	[7][2]
Vice President			October 1993	February 1994
First Vice President			February 1994	12 February 1998 [lower-alpha 3]					[8]
		Ali Osman Taha	February 1998	9 January 2005		National Congress Party			[8]
		John Garang [lower-alpha 1]	9 January 2005	30 July 2005 [lower-alpha 3]		Sudan People's Liberation Movement			[2]
		Salva Kiir Mayardit [lower-alpha 1]	11 August 2005	9 July 2011 [lower-alpha 4]		Sudan People's Liberation Movement			[2][9]
		Ali Osman Taha	13 September 2011	6 December 2013		National Congress Party			[2][10]
		Bakri Hassan Saleh [lower-alpha 5]	7 December 2013	23 February 2019		National Congress Party			[11]
		Lt. General Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf	23 February 2019	11 April 2019		Military / National Congress Party			[12]
Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Military Council		Lt. General Kamal Abdel-Marouf al-Mahi	11 April 2019	13 April 2019		Military		Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf	[13]
		Lt. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo	13 April 2019	21 August 2019		Military		Abdel Fattah al-Burhan	[14]
Deputy Chairman of the Sovereignty Council			21 August 2019	Incumbent					[15]

Second Vice Presidents

Title	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Party		President		Refs
Deputy Chairman of the NRCC		Major Gen. Khalid Hassan Abbas	May 1969	1971		Military		Jaafar Nimeiry	[16]
Second Vice President		Abel Alier [lower-alpha 1]	1972	1982		Southern Front			[8][3]
		Joseph Lagu [lower-alpha 1]	1982	April 1985		Sudan African National Union			[8]
		George Kongor Arop [lower-alpha 1]	February 1994	October 2000		National Congress Party		Omar al-Bashir	[17][16]
		Moses Kacoul Machar [lower-alpha 1]	February 2001	January 2005					[16]
		Ali Osman Taha	9 July 2005	13 September 2011		National Congress Party			[9]
		Alhaj Adam Yousef [lower-alpha 6]	13 September 2011	7 December 2013		National Congress Party			[18]
		Hassabu Mohamed Abdalrahman [lower-alpha 7]	7 December 2013	10 September 2018		National Congress Party			[19]
		Osman Kebir [lower-alpha 8]	10 September 2018	11 April 2019		National Congress Party

Third Vice Presidents

Title	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Party		President		Refs
Third Vice President		Rashid Bakr [lower-alpha 9]	11 August 1976	10 September 1977		Sudanese Socialist Union		Jaafar Nimeiry	[20][16]
		Major Gen. Omar Muhammad al-Tayib	1981	1982		Military / Sudanese Socialist Union			[16]

Assistants and advisors to the President

Senior Assistants to the President

Title	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Party		President		Refs
Senior Assistant to the President		Riek Machar [lower-alpha 1]	7 August 1997	31 January 2000		South Sudan Independence Movement		Omar al-Bashir
		Minni Minnawi [lower-alpha 10]	23 April 2007	6 December 2010		Sudan Liberation Movement/Army

Assistants to the President

• Nafii Ali Nafii Ahmed
• Musa Mohamed Ahmed; from Eastern Sudan

Advisors to the President

• Shartai Jaafar Abdel Hakam (11 January 2012 – ????)

Notes

1. From Southern Sudan.
2. Also Head of the State Security Organization.
3. Died in office.
4. Left position when South Sudan became independent.
5. Also served as Prime Minister of Sudan from March 2017 to October 2018.
6. Position reserved for a National Congress Party representative from Darfur.
7. From South Darfur.
8. From North Darfur.
9. Also Prime Minister, possibly also Third Vice President in 1977–1979.
10. From Darfur.

See also

• Sudan
  • Politics of Sudan
  • List of governors of pre-independence Sudan
  • List of heads of state of Sudan
  • List of heads of government of Sudan
• List of current Vice Presidents
• Lists of office-holders

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