Raja Nicola Eissa Abdel-Masih | |
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رجاء نيقولا عيسى عبد المسيح | |
| Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council | |
| Assumed office 11 November 2021 | |
| In office 21 August 2019 – 25 October 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Omdurman |
| Occupation | judge[1] |
Raja Nicola Eissa Abdel-Masih[2] (Arabic: رجاء نيقولا عيسى عبد المسيح) is a civilian member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Sudan's collective transitional head of state. She was chosen for this position[3] as one of six civilians to hold seats in the original 11-member council. She was the only one of them whose name was agreed upon through a consensus between the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance (FFC) and the Transitional Military Council (TMC), as was foreseen under the terms of the Draft Constitutional Declaration of August 2019.[4][5] She is the only civilian member of the TSC to have been reinstated by Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan after he seized power in the 2021 military coup d'état.[6]
As such she is, along with fellow council member Aisha Musa el-Said, one of the first two women in modern Sudanese history to hold the role equivalent to a federal minister and is also the first Christian (as a member of the Coptic minority) to hold such a high political office in the country.[1] As a judge, she is responsible in particular for the legal system in Sudan.[7]
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