B.Sc. Agriculture Majoring crop protection (first class), University of Kartoum 1982
M.Sc. agriculture, University of Khartoum, 1987
Thesis :Screening for Striga resistance and the effect of striga on yield of millet
Dipoma in maize crop research management CYMMT 1991
Ph.D.: Bacteriology, Ankara University Oct.2002.
Thesis: Use of molecular and serological methods in identification of tomato bacterial canker pathogen ( Clavibacter michiganensis subsp, michiganensis)