Rank :                   Field Marshal

Name:                    Zubeir Mohamed Salih

Date of Birth:      1/1/1944.

Marital Status:   Married and a father of boys and girls.

 

Academic Qualifications:

Sudan School Certificate.

 

Military Qualifications:

Internal:

1. Diploma, Military College/All Obligatory Training Courses/ Corps Battalion.
2. Commanders/Tactical Corps Commanders/ Infantry Corps.
3. Commander/Infantry Brigade Commanders.

Foreign:

1. Maintenance and Repair – U.S.S.R
2. Group Commanders Course – A.R.E. (Egypt).
3. Training Session – Federal Germany.

 

Units in which he served:

1. Northern Corps.
2. Service Corps.
3. Transportation Corps.
4. Maintenance Corps.
5. Upper Nile Military Area.
6. Unified Training Center.

 

Medals and Decorations:

1. May Revolution Medal.
2. Victory Medal.
3. Endurance Medal.
4. Worthiness Medal.
5. Duty Medal.
6. National Unity Medal.
7. Excellent Long Service Medal.
8. Military Achievement Medal.
9. The Republic’s Medal.
10. Great River Medal (Libya).

 

Languages:

Arabic/ English.

 

Constitutional Positions:

1. Member of the Revolutionary Command Council, the National Salvation Revolution.
2. Minister of the Interior.
3. Vice President of the Republic of Sudan.
4. First Vice-President of the Republic of Sudan.

On-2-1998 he achieved martyrdom in a plane crash at El Nasir City in Southern Sudan. Mr. Ali Osman Mohamed Salih was appointed as first Vice-President.