Abdel Mohamed Halim studied at Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum but then attended medical school at the Kitchener School of Medicine. He was a medical doctor who later entered politics and became the mayor of Khartoum from 1956-60, and also a member of the Supreme Council of State. As a physician he served as the director of his hospital and the first chairman of Sudan’s medical association, and in 1948 became the first Sudanese to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and was elected a fellow of that college in 1962. In sports administration, Halim made a big contribution to African football as a founding member of the continent’s football federation in 1957, organizer of the first African Nations Cup the same year in his native Sudan, and African Football Supremo in 1987-88. He was also an Executive Committee member of FIFA and served on several FIFA commissions. Halim was an IOC member 1968-82 and later an honorary IOC Member.
Sudan