The rival Zaghawa Kobe group is the main base of Sudan's rebel Justice and Equality Movement led by Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed which blames Déby for its losses and for the displacement of tens of thousands of Zaghawa on both sides of the frontier...
Its only visible spokesperson lives in France: Khalil Ibrahim a medical doctor who was an advisor to NIF hardliner El Tayeb Mohamed Kheir ('Tayeb Sikha': Iron Bar) Darfur Governor in the 1990s and now Security Advisor to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...
These rebels were joined by the Justice and Equity Movement led by Khalil Ibrahim and consisting of Islamists close to Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's faction of the NIF...
When Khalil Ibrahim a Darfurian close to Hassan el Turabi's NIF faction claimed the SLA as an ally many oppositionists began to suspect it was a government ploy...