Mansour Khalid

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan from 1971 to 1975 and briefly in 1977.^[3] He also served as first vice chairman of the World Commission on Environment and Development,^[4] also known as the Brundtland Commission, after the Chair of the commission, who was Gro Harlem Brundtland (former Prime Minister of Norway). He played an important role in negotiating the peace accord known as the Addis Ababa Agreement which ended the First Sudanese Civil War

Minister of Education from 1975 to 1976. According to the historian John O. Voll, he also played a critical role in negotiating the Addis Ababa Agreement of 1972, which ended the First Sudanese Civil War.^[5] Mansour Khaled maintained cordial relations with southern Sudanese leader John Garang and later South Sudanese president Salva Kiir, and earned such respect that the South Sudanese government ordered flags to be flown at half-mast in his honor when he died.^[6]