Ali Osman Mohamed Taha

Comprising President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit the Presidency has a built-in NCP majority...

The NCP may fear that the chilly welcome Second Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and his delegation received in Washington last month signals a more serious threat from President Barack Hussein Obama’s government (AC Vol 51 No 20)...

' Khartoum's New York delegation led by Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha (still powerful despite years of speculation) left no doubts in private talks with US officials that the NCP rejected compromise on Abyei we hear...

Arguments have already erupted over whether NCP strongman and Second Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha or First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit – who might soon be the first President of a newly independent South Sudan – will lead Sudan’s delegation...

Next day also at the youth meeting Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha declared that 'chaos' would follow any Southern separation and supporters of the idea were 'losers'...

This puts the man who has been one of the most prominent advocates of the ‘New Sudan’ in the lead over the CPA and is a serious blow to Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon co-chairperson with Ali Osman Mohamed Taha of the national committee overseeing the CPA...

Ali Osman Mohamed Taha may seem out of favour (though still Vice-President) along with such veterans as Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani (medic tank driver) or Qutbi el Mahdi Ahmed (Iran-trained intelligence officer) but no one thinks the Islamist movement can dispense with their skills...

Khartoum has the means to delay the Abyei vote (and thereby disrupt the Southern referendum) since the District is governed by the Presidency – President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha – an inbuilt NCP majority...

* Second Vice-President and NCP baron Ali Osman Mohamed Taha asked First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit we hear to give Field Marshal Omer 40% of the Southern vote (an impossible figure the NCP press had been touting)...

On that same day it had cancelled a crucial meeting of the Presidency which comprises Field Marshal (formerly Brigadier General) Omer First Vice-President and SPLM Chairman Salva Kiir Mayardit (in permanent minority) and Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha (long Turabi's deputy in the NIF)...