Omar al-Tayib
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 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 |
Lieutenant General Omar Mohamed al-Tayib was a Sudanese soldier and politician.
Al-Tayib was born in 1933 in Al-Zaydab village in Northern Sudan. He was educated at the Military College of Sudan. He was eventually promoted as Lieutenant General of Sudanese Army.
During the Nimeiry era, al-Tayib was one of the Vice Presidents (1981–1982), and then First Vice President (1982–1985) and Nimeiry's powerful head of State Security Organization. Al-Tayib deputized Nimeiry when he was ill. Al-Tayib was also described to be a close friend of Abdul Majid Khalil.
Al-Tayib lost his political power when Nimeiry was ousted in April 1985. Al-Tayib was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1986 in an allegedly politically motivated trial. He emigrated to Saudi-Arabia at that time, and returned to Sudan in 2000. He died in Cairo in July 2023.