University of Khartoum prize for best B.Sc. (Honours.) academic performance in the Faculty of Economics and Social Studies1993/94.
University prize for top student, fourth year economics, 1992/93.
University Prize for top student, third year economics, 1991/92.
Faculty of Economic and Social Studies prize for the second top student in the preliminary year 1989/90.
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award for the year 1997/98.
Wolfson College Award for the year 1997/98.
Malaysian Commonwealth Scholar; a title given by the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, October 1997.
Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society.
Netherlands Fellowship at the Institute of Social Studies, Hague, 1997, (apologised) African Fellowship at the American University in Cairo, 1997(apologised).
University of Manchester Research Scholarship 2000-2002
