Background
Abu El Gasim Ibrahim was born in 1937 Omdurman, Al Wusta, Sudan.
Abu El Gasim Ibrahim was born in 1937 Omdurman, Al Wusta, Sudan.
Educated at El Mourada Elementary School, then Omdurman Intermediate School and Khartoum Secondary School.
Commissioned from the Military College in 1962, he was posted to Central Command at El Obeid. Four months later he was sent to England for a parachute course at Aldershot. On his return in 1963 he worked on the training programme to create a Parachute Corps in the Sudan. He was posted to Southern Command and returned in 1968 to be an instructor in the Infantry Training School at Gabeit.
After the May 1969 revolution he joined the cabinet on October 28, 1969, as Minister of Local Government. President Nimeri made him Assistant to the Prime Minister for the Armed Services on July 22, 1970, after his ruthless crushing of the conservative Ansars. On November 16, 1970, he was appointed Minister of the Interior. The following year he was switched to Minister of Health and retained the post after the reshuffle in October 1972.
One of the top ten in the May 1969 revolution, who came to the fore as one of the officers assigned to form the army’s Parachute Corps. Member of the Revolutionary Command Council, who has proved his ability in several cabinet posts. Remorseless in liquidating opposition, he was put in charge of the attack on Aba Island in March 1970 when 1,000 Ansars are believed to have died.