Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub

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

Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahgub
محمد أحمد المحجوب
Mahgoub in 1965
5th Prime Minister of Sudan
In office 10 June 1965 – 25 July 1966
President	Ismail al-Azhari
Preceded by	Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa
Succeeded by	Sadiq al-Mahdi
In office 18 May 1967 – 25 May 1969
President	Ismail al-Azhari
Preceded by	Sadiq al-Mahdi
Succeeded by	Babiker Awadalla
Foreign Minister of Sudan
In office 1956–1958
Preceded by	Mubarak Zarouk
Succeeded by	Sayed Ahmad Keir
In office 1964–1965
Preceded by	Sayed Ahmad Keir
Succeeded by	Muhammad Ibrahim Khalil
In office 1967–1968
Preceded by	Ibrahim al-Mufti
Succeeded by	Ali Abdel Rahman al-Amin
Personal details
Born	(1908-05-17)17 May 1908 Ed Dueim, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Died	23 June 1976(1976-06-23) (aged 68) Khartoum, Sudan
Political party	National Umma Party

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]

References

1. Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1982). Great Soviet encyclopedia. Macmillan.
2. "Index Ma-Mam". www.rulers.org. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
3. Mohamed Ahmed Mahjoob Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. Sudan Embassy in Canada
4. Akol Ruay, Deng D. (1994). The Politics of The Two Sudans: The South and the North 1821–1969. Nordiska Afrikainstituten. pp. 132–133. ISBN 91-7106-344-7.

Further reading

• Abd al Hayy, M. (1976). Conflict and Identity: The Cultural Poetics of Contemporary Sudanese Poetry. Khartoum.
• Ahmed O.H. and Berkley, C.E. (eds.) (1982) Anthology of Sudanese Poetry. Washington DC.