The late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior’s ‘New Sudan’ doctrine called for a united Sudan based on ethnic linguistic religious and economic equality...
Vol 52 No 18 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
) Alison Manani Magaya Interior: Western Equatoria Azande; long-time Labour Minister for National Congress Party in Khartoum; NCP till 2010 now SPLM; veteran 1st AnyaNya war; absorbed into army post-1972 pact with John Garang de Mabior and Salva Kiir...
He warned of greater radicalism and possible military intervention by the party which he said quoting the late John Garang de Mabior was ‘too deformed to be reformed’...
Vol 52 No 15 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Tens of thousands of jubilant and weeping people cheered South Sudan’s new flag at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba on Independence Day 9 July...
New bank notes bearing the image of the late SPLM-SPLA Chairman John Garang de Mabior appeared on 19 July with the Central Bank of South Sudan exchanging the South Sudan pound one-for-one with the old Sudan pound...
Vol 52 No 14 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Preparations have been frenetic especially for the main ceremony at the Dr John Garang de Mabior Mausoleum in Juba...
The late SPLM leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior believed the Nuba people symbolised the politically secularist ‘New Sudan’ which would liberate all ‘marginalised peoples’ – thus the recent call by Commander Abdel Aziz Adam el Hilu to overthrow the NCP...
The Canal beloved of the late Colonel John Garang de Mabior who wrote a PhD thesis on it is hugely controversial as it would drain the Sudd a swamp seasonally reaching some 130 000 square kilometres that is fundamental to the Nilotic pastoralist way of life...
In the fighting that ensued Athor attacked Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon’s breakaway SPLA-Nasir faction commanding forces loyal to the SPLA leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior under the leadership of Lt...
‘Just because you are going to die some day does not mean that you should not celebrate a happy moment today ’ said one Southerner noting that the late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior had said the South does not have priorities because everything there is a priority...
The presidency will not be contested says a source so Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a Nuer leader who led a rebellion against Colonel John Garang in 1991 and later collaborated with what was then the National Islamic Front regime should remain Vice-President until 2017...
In 1983 President Gafaar Nimeiry declared sharia law and Colonel John Garang de Mabior along with Salva and other Southern officers defected to form the Sudan People’s Liberation Army...