Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani, Sudanese political leader, dies at 90
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Eye Radio
Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and head of the Khatmiyya Sufi order, died at the age of 90 at his home in Cairo on Friday evening. He remains associated with the 1988 Mirghani-Garang peace initiative concluded with John Garang, founder of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, according to Eye Radio.
Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani, a Sudanese political and religious leader, died on Friday evening at the age of 90 at his residence in Cairo, Egypt. He led the Democratic Unionist Party of Sudan and the Khatmiyya Sufi brotherhood, according to Eye Radio.
Al-Mirghani had taken over the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party in 1968, after his father, Ali al-Mirghani. His brother Ahmed al-Mirghani chaired Sudan’s Supreme Council of State from 1986 to 1989, according to Eye Radio.
Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani had also taken part, with John Garang, founder of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, in the Mirghani-Garang peace initiative. Signed in Addis Ababa on 16 November 1988, the agreement aimed to end Sudan’s civil war, suspend the September Laws and prepare an inclusive constitutional conference. The project was halted by the June 1989 coup led by Omar el-Béchir and the National Islamic Front, Eye Radio reports.
