Background
Abubakr was born in 1930 at Wadi Haifa, Sudan.
Abubakr was born in 1930 at Wadi Haifa, Sudan.
Educated at Om Ruwaba primary school, then at schools at El Obeid and Hantoub. Graduated with a BA degree from Khartoum University in 1955.
He began teaching in the south-west at Tonj in the Bahr el Ghazal Province in 1955 and then moved to KhorTaget Secondary School. After just over a year of teaching he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs working in the political section from 1956 to 1960. He attended the United Nations General Assembly in 1957.
His first posting was to Cairo in 1960 where he rose to be minister. From 1966 to 1970 he was Sudan’s first Ambassador to Algeria. In 1970 he became Ambassador to Libya and returned in November 1971 to Khartoum as director of the Arab Affairs Department. General Nimeri promoted him to presidential advisor three months later with the rank of deputy minister.
eacher-turned-diplomat always at the Head of State’s side on important international occasions, highly esteemed for his incisive analysis of world problems. Having attended every Arab summit conference since 1964 at Cairo he supplies the sense of continuity at the presidency. As an envoy in North African capitals for over 10 years he acquired a close knowledge of the people and the problems of the Arab North which makes him a man eagerly listened to at the palace.