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Babiker Awadalla
(2 March 1917 – 17 January 2019)
[1]
was a
Sudanese
Arab
nationalist politician. He was born in
Gitena
,
White Nile State
.
He held the position of
Speaker of the Parliament
from 1954 to 1957, and became Chief Judge in 1964. In 1966, he resigned from the court in protest of the government's refusal to reinstate the Sudanese Communist Party, which the court had held to be unconstitutionally banned from parliament. After 1972, he moved to
Egypt
, and later
Dublin
,
Ireland
, where he lived until his death. He
turned 100
in March 2017.
[2]
Awadalla was the
oldest living former head of state or government
, a title he has held from the death of
đ? M??i
on 1 October 2018. Awadalla died on 17 January 2019 in Dublin, aged 101.
[3]