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The head of the Sudan National Umma Party, Sadiq al-Mahdi, died from his infection with the Coronavirus.
The Reuters news agency cited sources in the Al-Mahdi family and a statement issued by his party that he had died while receiving treatment in the United Arab Emirates.
Three weeks ago, Al Mahdi, 84, was admitted to a hospital in the United Arab Emirates after becoming infected with the Coronavirus.
Al-Mahdi was Sudan’s prime minister until he was ousted in 1989 in the military coup that brought former President Omar al-Bashir to power.
Al-Mahdi headed the Umma Party and remained an influential figure even after Bashir was ousted in April 2019.
Last month, Al-Mahdi’s family said he had tested positive for COVID-19 and had been transferred to the United Arab Emirates for treatment, a few days after he was briefly hospitalized in Sudan, according to Reuters.
The agency indicated that many members of his family and prominent party officials were infected with the virus.
Al-Mahdi had returned to Sudan in December 2018 from his self-imposed exile, at a time when protests were intensified by deteriorating economic conditions and Al-Bashir’s rule.
His daughter, Maryam, was one of those arrested during the demonstrations.
After the army forced al-Bashir to resign, al-Mahdi asked for a transfer to the civilian government.
Sadiq al mahdi in lines
- He was born in December 1935 in Omdurman.
- He obtained a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oxford in 1957.
- After the death of his father, Siddiq al-Mahdi, in 1961, he assumed the leadership of the Ansar and led the National United Front.
- He was elected Prime Minister of Sudan between 1966 and 1967 and 1986 and 1989.
- In 2014, he criticized the Sudanese authorities and was arrested, and had been imprisoned several times in the years 1969, 1973, 1983 and 1989.
- He has many books such as “The Future of Islam in Sudan”, “Islam and the New World Order” and “Sudan Where?”
