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 Hamid 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 |
Lieutenant General Omar Mohamed al-Tayib was a Sudanese soldier and politician. [1]
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]