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5 unusual facts about Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi


Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi

1988: led the negotiations to expand the government to the parliamentary opposition - the Islamic Front party - which paved the way to its entry into the Government of Sayed Sadiq al-Mahdi in May 1988.

Nov. 1995: Organized an International Conference on Peace and Democracy in Sudan with Christian Union, held at the United Kingdom House of Lords and attended by representatives of the IGAD countries, Egypt, the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Norway, Italy and the Netherlands.

This alliance was a cunning plan by both al Fadil and the SPLM to device both southern and northern political forces together and was born out of the Conference of Political Parties held in Juba in September 2009; this conference was both conceptualized and coordinated by Sayed Mubarak El-Fadil El-Mahdi.

Sept. 1991: Organized with Former US President Jimmy Carter, an International Conference on the political situation in Sudan, held in Atlanta, Georgia.

National Umma Party Sudan

The most prominent of these factions was the Umma Party (Reform and Renewal) headed by Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi, who is the first cousin of Sadiq al Mahdi and former Interior Minister when the Umma Party was last in power under Sadiq as Prime Minister from 1986 to 1989.



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