 He immigrated to Russia in 1989 when he was afflicted by kidney failure, and underwent surgery there before travelling to Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt.Mustafa subsequently immigrated to Qatar where he spent the rest of his life and died after a long struggle with kidney failure on 16 January 1996.During his time in Qatar, Mustafa released many songs, most of which expressed the suffering and struggle of the Sudanese against the regime of Omar al-Bashir.