John Garang de Mabior

Salva has effectively demoted two key officials - Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior (AC Vol 46 No 16) - by removing the portfolios under their control although they will both play key roles in the government...

Yet White Nile insisted that it had been awarded rights in unorthodox negotiations with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a Nuer leader and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior the widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior...

This was unwise given the concerns of John Garang's then deputy Salva Kiir Mayardit now President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) made public at the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army conference in December 2004 about unaccountable business deals contracted by senior SPLM/A members...

His Deputy Information Minister John Bande accused Muluzi of telling 'lies' about his overseas visit to attract financial support for it; his press officer Chikumbutso Mtumodzi 'discovered' ten-year-old secret documents linking him to the late Colonel John Garang and his Sudan People's Liberation Army...

We hear Salva's Chief of Defence Staff Oyai Deng Ajak (a Shilluk and John Garang's son-in-law) had proposed that the SPLA 'remove' all SAF and militia forces from the South but Salva refused...

Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon defected from the late John Garang de Mabior's SPLA in 1991 and was soon co-opted into the NIF regime...

'New Sudan' was John Garang's name taken up by the whole opposition for the post-National Islamic Front government of which they dreamed...

Some Southerners think the man who had broken with the late Sudan People's Liberation Army Commander John Garang de Mabior in 1991 (alongside Lam Akol Ajawin now the Islamist regime's enthusiastic Foreign Minister) and whose wife Angelina Teny is GOSS Oil Minister is too busy building a power-base...

Salva has a looser alliance with Museveni than his predecessor the late Colonel John Garang de Mabior and is keen to rid Southern Sudan of Ugandan forces who first crossed the border by agreement with Khartoum in 2002 to hunt the LRA...

In 1991 Nuer fighters loyal to Commander Riek Machar in what was then a breakaway SPLA faction the SPLA-United slaughtered around 2 000 civilians from the Bor Dinka the late SPLM/A chief John Garang's ethnic group...

Lam has jumped many ships breaking first (alongside Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon) with John Garang de Mabior then with Riek then from the NIF then from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM now of Darfur)...

Salva's predecessor the late John Garang last year told both UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and multiple US officials that he wanted a UN force in Darfur...