Khalid Omer Yousif is a Sudanese political leader and long-time advocate for democracy, civic rights, and peace. His public life began in 1999 as a student activist resisting the Inqaz regime. In 2003, he was elected to the University of Khartoum Student Union—the first opposition-led union since 1990. In 2007, at the age of 28, he became Secretary-General of the Sudanese Congress Party, the youngest person to hold the position, helping expand the party’s national reach and strengthen the pro-democracy movement. Khalid was a founding leader of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), the coalition that guided the 2018–2019 revolution and negotiated the civilian-military transitional arrangements. He later served as Minister of Cabinet Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, coordinating ministerial work during a period of reform, institutional rebuilding, and progress toward democratic transition. His tenure ended with the October 25, 2021 coup, after which he was detained and later resumed his efforts to restore civilian rule. Since the war’s outbreak in April 2023, Khalid has been a leading civilian voice for peace. Khalid Elamin Khalid Omer Yousif is a Sudanese political leader and long-time advocate for democracy, civic rights, and peace. His public life began in 1999 as a student activist resisting the Inqaz regime. In 2003, he was elected to the University of Khartoum Student Union—the first opposition-led union since 1990. In 2007, at the age of 28, he became Secretary-General of the Sudanese Congress Party, the youngest person to hold the position, helping expand the party’s national reach and strengthen the pro-democracy movement. Khalid was a founding leader of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), the coalition that guided the 2018–2019 revolution and negotiated the civilian-military transitional arrangements. He later served as Minister of Cabinet Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, coordinating ministerial work during a period of reform, institutional rebuilding, and progress toward democratic transition. His tenure ended with the October 25, 2021 coup, after which he was detained and later resumed his efforts to restore civilian rule.

Since the war’s outbreak in April 2023, Khalid has been a leading civilian voice for peace. He co-founded Tagadom and later Somoud, platforms uniting democratic forces to end the conflict and chart a pathway toward a civilian, peaceful Sudan. Through his writing, public advocacy, and political engagement, he continues to advance the cause of democracy, peace, and rejection of extremism in all its forms.