Word: mahgoub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement of sorts did come out of Khartoum. In a two-hour conference at the home of Sudanese Premier Mohammed Mahgoub, Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal promised to stop their five-year confrontation in Yemen. They signed a treaty under which Nasser will pull out the 20,000 troops that now prop up Yemen's Leftist Premier Abdullah Sallal, Feisal will stop sending arms to Sallal's tough Royalist enemies, and three neutral Arab states will send in observers to make sure that no one cheats. If carried out as promised, that pact would almost...
Scholar & Snake. The election made good the promise of Prime Minister Sadik el Mahdi, 31, who has called for a national reconciliation with the deceptively simple slogan: "Pacification with persuasion." A mild Oxford scholar, Sadik last July replaced Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, who chose to discourage the rebellious Anya Nya (named for the poison of the black Mamba snake) with retaliatory raids on southern villages. Instead, Sadik established "peace villages" where tribesmen intimidated by the Anya Nya could live under the protection of his troops. In quiet, unemotional tones, the world's second youngest head of government (Burundi...
Uncle v. Nephew. Though he is a great-grandson of the Mahdi whose howling hordes overran General "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, Sadik has shown himself to be a man of tolerance. In 1965 he worked closely with Mahgoub in banning the Communist Party because a Sudanese Communist had made a slanderous remark about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels...
Despite his age (now 30), he was the obvious choice as Prime Minister of the Sudan's first democratic government in seven years. Sadik remained in the background "to concentrate on party affairs," instead named Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, 58, a chainsmoking poet and veteran diplomat...
...Mahgoub was a rigid believer in the orthodox Mahdism preached by the Imam-too rigid, in fact, for his own good. Spurning conciliation, he turned the long-festering rebellion of the nation's three anti-Moslem southern provinces into a full-fledged civil war. He also alienated many members of his own government, a coalition of Umma and the Moslem National Union Party. With the coalition falling apart, Sadik last week decided that the time had come for him to move out of the back ground. Over the vociferous protests of his uncle, the Imam, he led Parliament...