Honorific Prefix: | Lieutenant General Engineer |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Rank: | Lieutenant General |
Battles: | 2023 War in Sudan |
Allegiance: | Sudanese Armed Forces |
Office2: | Member of the Transitional Military Council |
Term Start2: | 11 April 2019 |
Term End2: | 20 August 2019 |
Office: | Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council |
Term Start: | 20 August 2019 |
Primeminister: | Abdalla Hamdok (21 August 2019–25 October 2021) Abdalla Hamdok (21 November 2021–2 January 2022) Osman Hussein Acting (from 19 January 2022) |
Leader: | Abdel Fattah al-Burhan |
Leader2: | Abdel Fattah al-Burhan |
Ibrahim Jaber Karim is the Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces with the rank of Admiral since May 2023.[1] He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of "Sudatel Group for Communications", and a member of the "Sudanese Sovereignty Council" since 21 August 2019.[2] He participated in the establishment of the "Transitional Military Council" in 2019, and was a member of it as well as the head of the council's economic committee.[3] [4] [5]
Jabir joined the Navy in 1988 and held several positions there, including Director of the Training Department, Director of the Technical Department, Military Attaché in Southeast Asia between 2007 and 2015, and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Naval Forces for Logistics and Engineering between 2015 and 2019. He holds a Master's degree in Industrial Planning from University of Putra Malaysia, and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 from the University of Khartoum.[6] [7]