Farouk Abu Issa Explained

Farouk Abu Issa
Native Name:فاروق أبو عيسى
Birth Date:1933 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Wad Madani, Al Jazirah state, Sudan
Death Place:Al Riadh, Khartoum, Sudan
Office:Sudanese Foreign Minister
Term Start:1969
Term End:1971
Predecessor:Gaafar Nimeiry
Successor:Mansour Khalid
President:Gaafar Nimeiry
Party:National Consensus Forces
Otherparty:Sudanese Communist Party (1950–1971)
Alma Mater:Alexandria University
Children:1+

Farouk Abu Issa (Arabic: فاروق أبو عيسى; 12 August 1933 – 12 April 2020)[1] was a Sudanese politician and the Chairman of the National Consensus Forces.[2]

Abu Issa attended Hantoub Secondary School and was involved in activism from a young age; he joined the Sudanese Communist Party in 1950.[3] [4] His father was a member of the political party Ashiqqa' and supported peace between Sudan and Egypt.[3] Abu Issa graduated from Alexandria University with a degree in law in 1957 and subsequently joined the Egyptian Communist Party.[3]

He was Sudanese Foreign Minister under Jaafar Nimeiry from 1969 to 1971.[3] When the Sudanese Communist Party split from Nimeiry in 1970, Abu Issa withdrew from the party, though he continued to hold democratic sentiments.[3] In 1983, he was elected as the Secretary General of the Arab Lawyers Union; he held this position until 2003.[5] [6] He fled to Egypt in 1989 after Omar al-Bashir overtook the government and stayed in exile until 2005 when the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed.[5] He became the chairman of the National Consensus Forces' general council and held this position until his death in 2020.[5]

In December 2014 he was arrested along with Amin Mekki Medani, held in Kobar Prison, and subsequently charged with undermining the constitutional system.[5] [7] He was released from prison two and a half weeks later and taken to a hospital in Khartoum due to rapidly deteriorating health.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: بمناسبة ذكرى ثورة اكتوبر / المناضل فاروق ابوعيسى عطاء بلا حدود. 2005-10-24. sudaneseonline.com. ar. 2020-04-20.
  2. Web site: Sudan's opposition leader calls for popular uprising to overthrow the regime. Sudan Tribune. 21 July 2015.
  3. Web site: Farouk Abu Essa, Farouq Abu Issa, Farouq Abu Eissa. n.d.. Sudan Tribune. 2021-07-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20210713063912/https://www.sudantribune.com/+-Farouk-Abu-Essa,1244-+. 2021-07-13.
  4. Web site: Sudan: Obituary Tributes for Former Sudan Foreign Minister Farouk Abu Issa. 2020-04-13. All Africa. 2021-07-13.
  5. Web site: Obituary tributes for former Sudan Foreign Minister Faroug Abu Eisa. 2020-04-13. Dabanga. 2021-07-13.
  6. Web site: Veteran Pro-democracy Fighter Farouq Abu Eisa Dies. 2020-04-12. Sudanow. 2021-07-13.
  7. Web site: Democracy behind bars: 11 opposition leaders facing jail or death. The Guardian. 21 July 2015.
  8. Web site: Faroug Abu Eisa taken to hospital in Sudan’s capital. 2014-12-24. Dabanga. 2021-07-13.