Sudan’s Peace Government has appointed Professor Eid Ibrahim Brima as minister of higher education and scientific research, naming an academic with long experience in research, university administration and higher education reform to the post.
Prime Minister Mohamed Hassan al-Ta’aishi issued the appointment on Thursday under Cabinet Decision No. 26 of 2026, based on Article 73/A of the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of Sudan for 2025.
Brima is a specialist in analytical chemistry and has nearly two decades of academic and research experience since obtaining his PhD from De Montfort University in Leicester, Britain, in 2007.
He has worked as a lecturer and researcher at several British universities, including De Montfort University, the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University. He has also cooperated on research projects with the University of Manchester and the University of Hull.
His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Garyounis University in 1991, further undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Amsterdam in 2000, a master’s degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Huddersfield in Britain in 2002, and a PhD in analytical chemistry from De Montfort University in 2007.
Brima has also held academic and administrative positions in the Gulf, including at King Khalid University and Najran University in Saudi Arabia. He served as an associate professor and coordinator of analytical chemistry at King Khalid University, and as assistant head of pharmaceutical chemistry at Najran University’s College of Pharmacy.
According to biographical information released alongside the appointment, Brima has more than 15 years of experience in higher education leadership and administration. He has contributed to the development of higher education policies, quality improvement programmes and the establishment of universities equipped with modern teaching technologies.
He has supervised master’s and doctoral research, published more than 40 international scientific papers under the name Eid I. Brima, and currently supervises doctoral students at Kenyatta University in Kenya.
Brima is also currently working as a researcher on a major African food-related project at De Montfort University in Britain.
His appointment comes at a sensitive stage for Sudan’s education sector, which has been severely affected by the war, displacement and institutional collapse. Supporters of the appointment say his international academic experience could help guide efforts to rebuild universities, strengthen research capacity and reconnect Sudanese higher education with regional and global institutions.
Brima speaks Arabic, English and Dutch.
