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 Transitional 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
نائب رئيس جمهورية السودان (Arabic)
Emblem of Sudan
Flag of Sudan
Incumbent Malik Agar As Vice-President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council since 19 May 2023
Member of	Transitional Sovereignty Council
Residence	Khartoum
Appointer	President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council 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			Political affiliation		Representing	President		Refs
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Deputy Chairman of the NRCC		Babiker Awadalla	May 1969	1971	2 years		Independent			Gaafar Nimeiry	[2]
Vice President		Abel Alier	1971	1972	1 year		SF	Southern Sudan
First Vice President		Major Gen. Mohamed al-Baghir Ahmed	1972	1976	4 years		Military / SSU				[2][3]
		Major Abu el-Qassim Mohamad Ibrahim	1976	1979	3 years		Military / SSU				[2]
		Lt. General Abdul Majid Hamid Khalil	June 1979	25 January 1982	2 years, 238 days		Military / SSU				[4][2]
		Major Gen. Omar Muhammad al-Tayib [a]	January 1982	April 1985	3 years, 66 days		Military / SSU				[5][2]
Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Military Council		Lt. General Taj el-Deen Abdallah Fadl	April 1985	May 1986	1 year, 1 month		Military			Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab	[6]
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council		Abd al-Rahman Saeed	1986	1989	3 years					Ahmed al-Mirghani
Deputy Chairman of the RCCNS		Major Gen. Zubair Mohamed Salih	9 July 1989	October 1993	8 years, 218 days		Military / NCP			Omar al-Bashir	[7][2]
Vice President			October 1993	February 1994
First Vice President			February 1994	12 February 1998 [b]							[8]
		Ali Osman Taha	17 February 1998	9 January 2005	6 years, 327 days		NCP				[8]
		John Garang	9 January 2005	30 July 2005 [c]	202 days		SPLM	Southern Sudan			[2]
		Salva Kiir Mayardit	11 August 2005	9 July 2011 [d]	5 years, 332 days		SPLM	Southern Sudan			[2][9]
		Ali Osman Taha	13 September 2011	6 December 2013	2 years, 84 days		NCP				[2][10]
		Bakri Hassan Saleh [e]	7 December 2013	23 February 2019	5 years, 78 days		NCP				[11]
		Lt. General Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf	23 February 2019	11 April 2019	47 days		Military / NCP				[12]
Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Military Council		Lt. General Kamal Abdel-Marouf al-Mahi	11 April 2019	13 April 2019	2 days		Military			Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf	[13]
		Lt. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti)	13 April 2019	20 August 2019	4 years, 36 days		Military			Abdel Fattah al-Burhan	[14]
Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council			21 August 2019	25 October 2021							[15]
			11 November 2021	19 May 2023							[16]
		Malik Agar	19 May 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 337 days		SPLM–N				[17]

Second vice presidents

Title	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Political affiliation		Representing	President		Refs
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Deputy Chairman of the NRCC		Major Gen. Khalid Hassan Abbas	May 1969	1971	2 years		Military			Gaafar Nimeiry	[18]
Second Vice President		Abel Alier	1972	1982	10 years		SF	Southern Sudan			[8][3]
		Joseph Lagu	June 1982[19]	April 1985	2 years, 10 months		SANU	Southern Sudan			[8]
		George Kongor Arop	14 February 1994	14 October 2000	6 years, 243 days		NCP	Southern Sudan		Omar al-Bashir	[20][18]
		Moses Kacoul Machar	12 February 2001	January 2005	3 years, 10 months			Southern Sudan			[18]
		Ali Osman Taha	9 July 2005	13 September 2011	6 years, 66 days		NCP				[9]
		Al-Haj Adam Youssef	13 September 2011	7 December 2013	2 years, 85 days		NCP	Darfur			[21]
		Hassabu Mohamed Abdalrahman	7 December 2013	10 September 2018	4 years, 277 days		NCP	South Darfur			[22]
		Osman Kebir	10 September 2018	11 April 2019	213 days		NCP	North Darfur

Third vice presidents

Title	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Political affiliation		President		Refs
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Third Vice President		Rashid Bakr [f]	11 August 1976	10 September 1977	1 year, 30 days		SSU		Gaafar Nimeiry	[23][18]
		Major Gen. Omar Muhammad al-Tayib	1981	1982	1 year		Military / SSU			[18]

Timeline

Assistants and advisors to the president

Senior assistants to the president

Title	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Political affiliation		Representing	President		Refs
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Senior Assistant to the President		Riek Machar	7 August 1997	31 January 2000	2 years, 177 days		SPLA-Nasir	Southern Sudan		Omar al-Bashir
		Minni Minnawi	23 April 2007	6 December 2010	3 years, 227 days		SLM/A	Darfur

Assistants to the president

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

Advisors to the president

• Shartai Jaafar Abdel Hakam (11 January 2012 – ????); representing West Darfur

See also

• Politics of Sudan
• History of Sudan
• List of governors of pre-independence Sudan
• List of heads of state of Sudan
• List of heads of government of Sudan

Notes

1. Also Head of the State Security Organization.
2. Died in an air crash.
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. Also Prime Minister, possibly also Third Vice President in 1977–1979.