To many, Burhan's initiative is a reflection of the political success of the mass demonstrations on 30 June condemning both last year's putsch by Gen Burhan and the coup led by General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the National Islamic Front in 1989 which ended a three-year interregnum of constitutional government under El Sadig el Mahdi...
President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had hoped that the planned return of veteran politician El Sadig el Mahdi after two years of exile in Egypt would give a veneer of credibility to the political talks...
It takes a lot to unite Sudan's oppositionists but the chorus of condemnation was deafening including El Sadig el Mahdi...
• April 1986: El Turabi fails to win parliamentary seat in free elections; at insistence of DUP leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani joins his brother-in-law El Sadig el Mahdi's government as Attorney General later Foreign Minister (AC Vol 27 No 9 The shadow of the Brotherhood)...
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- SOUTH SUDAN
Salva Kiir increasingly relies on a few close supporters from his own Greater Bahr el Ghazal region especially members of the Jieng Council of Elders a self-appointed group of Dinka grandees and elder statesmen led by ex-Chief Justice Ambrose Riiny Thiik and a Sudanese ex-Deputy Premier under El Sadig el Mahdi Aldo Ajou Deng Akuei (AC Vol 46 No 10 Running the South & Vol 43 No 5 'Making politics and war together')...
Now France helps the opposition hosting the August 2014 Paris Declaration by the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) and El Sadig el Mahdi's Umma Party faction...
Before its National Dialogue gathering in Khartoum the NCP regime tried to tempt the National Umma Party leader El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi on board as in the past...
El Tigani was South Darfur Governor when the Arab Alliance (Tijamu el Arabi) first began marauding in the late 1980s under El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi's elected government...
They included United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement-North Britain Amnesty International and the National Umma Party (though not El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi who called for restorative rather than retributive justice)...
The Umma Party will also boycott its leader El Sadig el Mahdi assured Africa Confidential last October (AC Vol 55 No 25 The opposition shows a new political will)...