Zubair Mohamed Salih | |
Honorific Prefix: | Lieutenant General |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Order: | Vice President of Sudan |
Term Start: | 27 December 1993 |
Term End: | 4 August 1995 |
President: | Omar al-Bashir |
Successor: | Ali Osman Taha |
Predecessor: | Abd al-Rahman Saeed |
Birth Date: | 1944 |
Death Date: | 12 February 1998 (age 53-54) |
Rank: | Lieutenant General |
Zubair Mohamed Salih (1944 – 12 February 1998) was a Sudanese soldier and politician. Salih was the deputy of Omar al-Bashir in the military government from 1989 to 1993 and then he continued as al-Bashir's Vice President.[1]
Salih died in the 1998 Sudan Air Force crash at Nasir.[2] He was described as a crucial link between the Sudan People's Armed Forces and Dr. Hassan al-Turabi's National Islamic Front.
His name is also spelled Zubair Mohammad Salih, Zubeir Mohammed al-Saleh and Al-Zubair Mohamed Saleh.