Ahmed al-Mirghani, former Sudanese president, died in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria on Sunday, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.
Mirghani, who is also a vice-president of Sudan's Democratic Unionist Party, passed away at the age of 70, sources of the party were quoted as saying.
They said that Mirghani died at his home in Alexandria and he will be buried in Khartoum.
Mirghani was Sudan's head of state between 1986 and 1989.