Word: mahgoub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultimatum. In the wake of the Juba massacre came a new hard line from Khartoum. Abandoning all hopes of reconciliation, Mahdi-backed Prime Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub rushed heavy reinforcements to the three rebellious provinces and issued an ultimatum to the guerrillas to surrender their arms-or face "severe measures...
...took seven years, but last week Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub was finally sworn in as the Sudan's Prime Minister. Back in 1958, the conservative coalition parties, Umma and National Union, had just agreed privately to name Mahgoub Prime Minister when General Ibrahim Abboud staged his takeover, and instead of heading a Cabinet, Mahgoub spent seven months in jail...
...recent elections held in the Moslem north (TIME, May 28) were convincingly won by the conservative coalition led by 29-year-old, Oxford-educated Economist Sadik el Mahdi, the great-grandson of the famed Mahdi who massacred the British at Khartoum in 1885. As El Mahdi's nominee, Mahgoub was acceptable to all sides. A gifted Arabic poet, the new Prime Minister also has degrees in law and engineering, became Foreign Minister when his country won independence in 1956, and led the Sudan's first delegation to the United Nations...
Both at the U.N. and in Arab conferences, the 55-year-old Mahgoub has proved to be a quietly effective moderate. "I strive for the possible," says Mahgoub. "I seek the compromise that everyone can accept, even though nobody may be particularly pleased. Often, compromise is the only road to progress...
...Mahgoub's mediating ways were promptly applied to the non-Moslem southern provinces, where rebellion against Khartoum's control has festered for months. Last week he managed to find southerners to fill three Cabinet posts reserved for the south. Next step: southern elections, which the insurgency has so far made impossible. Speaking to Parliament last week, Mahgoub said, "Our main duty is to face the great challenge of realizing security and stability, and pressing forward with the revival of democracy after six years of military oppression." Mahgoub saw no "insuperable blockades" to good relations with neighboring Egypt...