He was a leading member of the SIM but founded JEM with his brother Khalil Ibrahim after Beshir moved against his mentor Hassan el Turabi in 1999...
JEM is much weaker since Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed Foudeil took over from his brother Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed killed in December 2011...
OppositionThe three leading Darfur insurgent organisations joined the armed opposition alliance the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) in 2011: • Justice and Equality Movement: issued first statement November 2001 as Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement; JEM led 2001-11 by Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed former minister in NIF regime; main stated aim: to end marginalisation and racism nationally; founders mostly disaffected Zaghawa Kobe from Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's NIF; December 2011 Khalil killed in air attack; his brother Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed elected Chairman; JEM refused to sign 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA); May 2008 it attacked Omdurman; in 2011 it joined SRF; most recent clashes with government in April in Goz Dango south-west of Nyala...
In the spring and early summer of 2009 Déby had tried to mediate between the late Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed leader of one of the Darfur armed opposition groups the Justice and Equality Movement and Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...
Although relations with Sudan’s National Congress Party regime are generally warm Déby has to deal with continued fighting in Darfur especially with JEM now led by Khalil Ibrahim’s brother Jibreel Ibrahim Mohamed who accuses Déby of having killed Khalil...
These are the Justice and Equality Movement now led by the late Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed’s brother Jibreel Ibrahim Mohamed; Sudan Liberation Movement/Army-Minni Arkou Minnawi; and SLM/A-Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur...
The NCP proclaimed that by killing JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed Achar Foudeil Taha and ‘30 leaders...
They included: • Nasr el Din cousin of Umma Party leader and former Prime Minister El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi and a veteran of the 1976 attack from Libya by the Umma Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Muslim Brotherhood (later NIF) in a bid to oust President Ja’afar Mohamed Nimeiri; • El Tom Haju the DUP candidate for Sennar State governor and then advisor to the SPLM-N’s elected Blue Nile Governor Malik Agar Eyre (who was sacked this year by the NCP); • Ahmed Hussein Adam the former Spokesman of the Justice and Equality Movement and now Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Advisor to JEM Chairman Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed; • representatives from Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur’s Sudan Liberation Movement faction and ex-Presidential Advisor Minni Arkou Minnawi’s SLM...
Déby’s government meanwhile hosted armed Darfur oppositionists especially the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by former NIF minister Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed a relative of Déby’s seen as the protégé of NIF guru Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
With Khalil Ibrahim exiled in Libya JEM refuses to return to the Qatar talks...
Ethiopia gets most of its petroleum from Sudan while sources in Khartoum say the Chadian authorities received US$3 million this year to stop backing the Justice and Equality Movement and expel its leader former NIF minister Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed...
JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed was an NIF minister who led jihad in the South...
We hear Khalil Ibrahim is talking to Déby about abandoning the DFA...