What is Babiker Awadalla?
[[File:Babiker Awadalla 1960s.jpg|thumb|Awadalla in the 1960s.]] '''Babiker Awadalla''' (2 March 1917 &ndash; 17 January 2019)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tweAQAAMAAJ&q=Babiker+Awadalla+1917 | title=The Diplomatic Press Sudan Trade Directory: Including Classified Trade Index | year=1963 }}</ref> was a [[Sudan]]ese [[Arab]] nationalist politician. He was born in [[Gitena]], [[White Nile (state)|White Nile State]]. He held the position of [[National Assembly of Sudan|Speaker of the Parliament]] from 1954 to 1957, and became Chief Judge in 1964. In 1966, he resigned from the court in protest of the government's refusal to reinstate the Sudanese Communist Party, which the court had held to be unconstitutionally banned from parliament. After 1972, he moved to [[Egypt]], and later [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]], where he lived until his death. He [[Centenarian|turned 100]] in March 2017.<ref>[http://alahdathnews.com/archives/14186 مصطفى عبد العزيز البطل يكتب.. في سيرة بابكر عوض الله)1-2)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728044737/http://alahdathnews.com/archives/14186 |date=2017-07-28 }}{{in lang|ar}}</ref> Awadalla was the [[List of the oldest living state leaders|oldest living former head of state or government]], a title he has held from the death of [[Đỗ Mười]] on 1 October 2018. Awadalla died on 17 January 2019 in Dublin, aged 101.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sudanile.com/index.php/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A3%D9%8A/193-5-5-0-5-4-5-1/111832-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%B6-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B0%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7-%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7 |title=مولانا بابكر عوض الله رئيس السلطات الثلاثة في ذمة الله بايرلندا .. كتب: صلاح الباشا |access-date=201