Babiker Awadalla

Babiker Awadalla (2 March 1917 – 17 January 2019)[1] was a Sudanese Arab nationalist politician. He was born in Gitena, White Nile State.

Awadalla in the 1960s.

He held the position of Speaker of the Parliament from 1954 to 1957, and became Chief Judge in 1964. In 1966, he resigned from the court in protest of the government's refusal to reinstate the Sudanese Communist Party, which the court had held to be unconstitutionally banned from parliament. After 1972, he moved to Egypt, and later Dublin, Ireland, where he lived until his death. He turned 100 in March 2017.[2]

Awadalla was the oldest living former head of state or government, a title he has held from the death of Đỗ Mười on 1 October 2018. Awadalla died on 17 January 2019 in Dublin, aged 101.[3]

References
  1. "The Diplomatic Press Sudan Trade Directory: Including Classified Trade Index". 1963.
  2. مصطفى عبد العزيز البطل يكتب.. في سيرة بابكر عوض الله)1-2) Archived 2017-07-28 at the Wayback Machine(in Arabic)
  3. "مولانا بابكر عوض الله رئيس السلطات الثلاثة في ذمة الله بايرلندا .. كتب: صلاح الباشا". Archived from the original on 2019-02-03. Retrieved 2019-01-21.


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