Omar al-Tayib

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

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

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]