Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub ( ar, محمد أحمد المحجوب; 17 May 1908 – 23 June 1976) was both

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and then the 6th

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. He was also an important Sudanese literary writer, who published several volumes of

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and literary criticism in

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.Mohamed Ahmed Mahjoob
. Sudan Embassy in Canada He was born in the city of Aldewen in 1908. He moved to

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at the age of seven. Mahgoub graduated from engineering school in 1929 and in 1938, he obtained a

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degree from the

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. He was elected to parliament in 1946. After independence, Mahgoub was foreign minister between 1956 and 1958, and then again between 1964 and 1965. In 1965, he was elected Prime Minister, but subsequently forced to resign. In 1967, he was elected Prime Minister for the second time and served in that position until 1969.

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