Sudan government officially confirmed the death of Sudan's Minister of Guidance and Endowments Ghazi al-Sadiq in a plane crash.

A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation crashed in a mountainous southern region on Sunday, killing all 32 people on board including a Cabinet minister, a former presidential adviser, two generals and a TV crew.The Sudan government on Sunday officially confirmed the death of Sudan's Minister of Guidance and Endowments Ghazi al-Sadiq in a plane crash in Taloudy town in South Kordofan State earlier in the day that in all claimed 31 lives.This can confirm earlier remarks by Abdul-Hafez Abdul-Rahim, spokesperson of Sudan's Civil Aviation, that all the 31 passengers aboard the plane were killed in the incident.
Osman's statement noted that the plane tried twice to land but failed before colliding with a mountain due to bad weather conditions. 
The helicopter went down "due to harsh weather conditions" near Talodi, a small town about 650 kilometers (406 miles) southwest of the capital, Khartoum.Sudan has a poor aviation safety record, with a large number of jet accidents occurring on landing.On June 20, 2012, a Sudanese military training aircraft crashed at the air base in Port-Sudan city in eastern the country, leaving its two-member crew killed.
And in May 2008 – before South Sudan became a separate country – a plane crash in a remote area in the south killed 24 people, including key members of the regional southern Sudanese government.