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Mubarak Abdullahi El-Fadil El-Mahdi

Is an Economist and prominent Politician, Chairman of the Sudanese UMMA Party. He was appointed to several important political and executive positions in the Democratic Government of Sudan during the period 1986-1989.
A staunch advocate of democracy, he played a key role in the political opposition to ruling military governments in Sudan – both during the Numeiri dictatorship and later during the military rule of the Islamist government. He was instrumental in founding the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and forming an alliance between Umma Party and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) that led to the SPLM joining the Alliance. He was later elected Secretary General of the movement in 1995.

In recognition of the need to reach a peaceful settlement to the civil conflict in Sudan, he engineered and signed the Djibouti Agreement between the Islamist ruling Sudanese military government and the Umma Party. In his drive to instill renewed thinking and political direction in the Umma Party, he formed and was elected Chairman of the movement for Reform and Renewal within the Umma Party. The Party later participated in a coalition government with the ruling National Congress Party in which he served, for a short time, as Assistant President. In disagreement with government on policies and practices including the Darfur and Eastern Sudan conflicts, Sayed Mubarak El-Mahdi returned to the ranks of the opposition where he was vocal in pointing to the wrong doings of the regime and actively campaigned for return to democracy and a peaceful and just resolution to the country’s conflicts in the Darfur region and the East.

In this endeavor, he was instrumental to the formation of the Juba Alliance of Political Forces, to which he is a leading member. This alliance has brought closer southern and northern political forces 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.
He is currently a leading candidate for President of Sudan in elections due to be held in 2010.

His late father, Sayed Abdullahi El-Fadil El-Mahdi was the only son of the eldest son of the Imam El-Mahdi who was martyred in the battle of Shukkaba of 1899.
Sayed Abdullahi El-Fadil El-Mahdi, together with his late uncle Imam Abdel-rahman El-Mahdi established the Al-Ansar entity and the economic enterprise of the ElMahdi family. He played a key role in the battle for independence, leading negotiations with the Egyptian government during 1952-1953, which culminated in the signing of the Convention on the independence of the Sudan with General Mohamed Naguib, President of the Egyptian Revolution Council at the time.