The Order of the Two Niles () is a state decoration of Sudan established on 16 November 1961 during

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. The Order of the Two Niles –

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and

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Niles – is Sudan's second-highest honour after the Order of the Republic. The order is given to Sudanese and foreigners, civilians and military, who provided great services to the state. The order has five classes.

Classes

Insignia

The star, sash, and badge make up the First Class insignia. The star has ten points and is covered in gold. A ten-ended star is created by superimposing two five-pointed stars with truncated rays on top of one another. The surfaces of the stars are covered with vertical and, consequently, horizontal rays. The star consists of four layers and is particularly huge (102 mm) and heavy (8 1⁄2 ozs). A 40 mm white medallion sits in the middle with the inscription in dark blue: "El Nilein ", or "The Two Niles" in

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. The gold medallion is attached to the ribbon by means of a transition element in the form of a

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pendant. Rhinoceros was the

Republic of Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic ...

emblem until it became the

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and changed the

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in 1985 to a

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. The ribbon is Royal blue moiré with two 5 mm white stripes toward each edge and is 51 mm wide. The badge is of the same pattern but smaller, measuring 58 mm across. Class II consists of the star and a neck badge, Class III consists of a neck badge, and Class IV and V consist of chest badges. The insignia is made by

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(London, England), Eng Leong Medallic Industries and Bichay (Cairo, Egypt).

Notable recipients

Class I: Grand Cordon

* 1972 Burgess Carr for his role in mediating the

Addis Ababa Agreement (1972) The Addis Ababa Agreement, also known as the Addis Ababa Accord, was a set of compromises within a 1972 treaty that ended the First Sudanese Civil War (1955–1972) fighting in Sudan. The Addis Ababa accords were incorporated in the Constitution o ...

* 1979 Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan * 1988 Akef El-Maghraby * 1999

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* 2000

Jacques Diouf Jacques Diouf (1 August 1938 – 17 August 2019) was a Senegalese diplomat and the Director-General of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 1994 to 31 December 2011. He died on 17 August 2019, 16 days after hi ...

* 2001

Amr Moussa Amr Moussa ( ar, عمرو موسى, , Amr Muhammad Moussa; born 3 October 1936) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab states, from 1 June 2001 to 1 July 2011 ...

* 2001

Saleh Abdullah Kamel Saleh Abdullah Kamel (1941 – 18 May 2020) ( ar, صالح عبد الله كامل ''Ṣaleḥ 'Abdullāh Kamel'') was a Saudi billionaire businessman. He had a net worth estimated at US$2.3 billion, as of March 2017. He was the chairman and f ...

* 2002

Stefan Jakobielski Stefan Karol Jakobielski (born August 11, 1937 in Warsaw) is a Polish historian, archaeologist, philologist, epigraphist. One of the pioneers of nubiology. He participated in archaeological research in Faras, Tell Atrib, Palmyra, Deir el-Bahari ...

* 2009 Essa Abdulla Al Basha Al Noaimi * 2013

Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish (born 6 November 1942, Ar Rass, Saudi Arabia)( ar, سليمان بن جاسر الحربش) ended his third five-year term as Director-General of the OPEC Fund for International Development in October 2018. Education * ...

* 2013

Deepak Vohra Deepak Vohra is a 21st-century Indian diplomat. Education and early career Vohra graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and St. Columba's School. He has also been educated at National Defence College (India) and University of Paris. P ...

* 2015 Hassan Ahmed Al Shehhi * 2015

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* 2016 Ghaith bin Moubarak Al-Kuwari * 2016 Taleb Rifai * 2016 Mohammed Matar Salem Al Kaabi * 2016 Abdalrhaman Salih El-Benian * 2017 Ghanem bin Shaheen Al-Ghanim * 2017 Tareq bin Mosa la Zedjali * 2018 Marta Ruedas *2018 Osama Shaltout *2018

José Graziano da Silva José Graziano da Silva (born November 17, 1949) is a Brazilian American agronomist and writer. As a scholar, he has authored several books about the problems of agriculture in Brazil. Between 2003 and 2004, Graziano served in the Luiz Inácio L ...

*2020 Mian Dutt *2020

Yevgeny Prigozhin Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (russian: link=no, Евгений Викторович Пригожин; born 1 June 1961) is a Russian oligarch and close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin was called "Putin's chef" because h ...

*2021 Al-Hussein Ould Sidi Abdullah *2021 Emmanuel Platman *2021 Ahmed Ali Bri *2021 Ravdendra Prasad Jaswal *2022 Alberto Ucelay *2022 Abdul-Rahman bin Ali Al-Kubaisi *2022 *2022 Hossam Issa *2022 Bassam Al-Qabandi *2022 Ma Xinmin *2022 Patricia Maria Oliveira *2023 *2023 Lee Sang-Jeong *

Jean-Bédel Bokassa Jean-Bédel Bokassa (; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996), also known as Bokassa I, was a Central African political and military leader who served as the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR) and as the emperor of its s ...

Koča Popović Konstantin "Koča" Popović ( sr-cyrl, Константин "Коча" Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the Fir ...

* Norman Jackson * Adel Abdalaziz Al-Rshoud

Class II: Grand Officer

* 1985

Bob Geldof Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (; born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter, and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as lead singer of the Rock music in Ireland, Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved ...

* 2002 * 2004

Ahmed H. Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( ar, أحمد حسن زويل, ; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry ...

who was also awarded Egypt’s

Order of the Nile The Order of the Nile (''Kiladat El Nil'') was established in 1915 and was one of the Kingdom of Egypt's principal orders until the monarchy was abolished in 1953. It was then reconstituted as the Republic of Egypt's highest state honor. Sultana ...

in 1999 * 2006 William Y. Adams * 2012

Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah ( ar, الشيخ صباح الخالد الحمد الصباح; born 3 March 1953) is a Kuwaiti diplomat and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kuwait from 2019 to 2022. he served in different governmental po ...

* 2019 Ibrahim Osman El-Amir * 2023

David Beasley David Muldrow Beasley (born February 26, 1957) is an American politician and the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. A member of the Republican Party, he served one term as the 113th Governor of South Carolina from 199 ...

Class III: Commander

* 1972 Abdalah Grosh * Arthur Young * Jamal al-Faisal * Kamil Idris

Unknown class

* 1965 Anthony Derrick Parsons * 1973

Sérgio Vieira de Mello Sérgio Vieira de Mello (; 15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously awarded the Sergio Vieira ...

* 1974

Faisal bin Sultan Al Qassimi Sheikh Faisal bin Sultan Al Qassimi ( ar, الشيخ فيصل بن سلطان بن سالم القاسمي) is a member of the royal house of Al Qasimi who rule the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. He was the first Under Secretary of the ...

* 1980 James Rodgers Allen * 1984 Clive Kelday Smith * 1988

Ahmad Fathi Sorour Ahmad Fathi Sorour (born 9 July 1932) is an Egyptian politician who was the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt from 1990 until the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Previously he served in the government as Minister of Education from 1986 to ...

* 1989 Mohamed Hamad Satti * 1989 Daoud Mustafa Khalid * 1990 Muhammed Saleh Abdul-Wahab * 2001 Hosny El-Lakany * 2001

Salim Ahmed Salim Salim Ahmed Salim ( ar, سليم احمد سليم, sw, Salim Ahmad Salim, born 23 January 1942) is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat who has worked in the international diplomatic arena since the early 1960s. Early life Salim was born in wh ...

* 2004 Peter Lewis Shinnie * 2004 Ergon agathon * 2005

Sepp Blatter Joseph "Sepp" Blatter (born Josef Blatter; 10 March 1936) is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth President of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been banned from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of ...

* 2005 Abdulaziz bin Ahmed Al Saud * 2007 Raymond Stewart * 2009

Rodolphe Adada Rodolphe Adada (born 24 April 1946) is a Congolese politician and diplomat. During the single-party rule of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Mines and Energy from 1977 to 1984, as ...

* 2016 Bashir Hassan Bashir * 2017

Samora Yunis Samora Muhammad Yunis (Amharic: ሳሞራ መሐመድ ዩንስ) is an Ethiopian military officer. Born in the Tigray Region in the north of the country, Yunis rose to be a four-star general in the Ethiopian National Defence Forces and eventua ...

* 2017 Abdillahi Omar Bouh * 2017 Mohammad Al-Khodher * 2018

Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi راشد عبدالله النعيمي is the former foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates. Early life and education Nuaimi is a member of the ruling family of Ajman, Al Nuaimi The Al Nuaimi ( ar, النعي� ...

* Abdel Halim Mohamed *

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Pope Shenouda III (; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ϣⲉⲛⲟⲩϯ ⲅ̅ '; ar, بابا الإسكندرية شنودة الثالث '; 3 August 1923 – 17 March 2012) was the List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria, 117th ...

* Sarabamon * Branko Mamula *

Jean Leclant Jean Leclant (8 August 1920 – 16 September 2011) was a renowned Egyptologist who was an Honorary Professor at the College of France, Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters of the Institut de France, and Honorary Se ...

References

{{Authority control Orders, decorations, and medals of Sudan Awards established in 1961