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)...
We hear that Second Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha the regime's strongman has been offering the Darfur fighters an assistant presidency - an NIF tactic used on both Riek Machar and Mubarak Abdullahi el Fadl el Mahdi both elevated and later dropped...
The SSDF was created under 1997's anti-SPLM Khartoum Peace Agreement that coopted Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...
Gatlwak is from Riek Machar's Nasir fiefdom with a Nuer mother and a father from the Bor Dinka...
On advice from Riek Machar and Lam Akol Ajawin former SSDF militia commanders who had redefected to the SPLM Salva agreed to appoint three SSDF members to the Southern assembly...
It's not forgotten that in the late 1990s Matiep who hails from the area drove out a government appointed by Riek Machar (then working for Khartoum) and headed by Taban...
Lam is also vulnerable as he has often switched sides - from SPLA to Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (1991) to the Frankfurt Declaration with Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's friend Ali el Haj Mohamed (1992) to the Khartoum Peace Agreement with the NIF (1997) back to SPLM (2003)...
Foreign Trade: George Bureng Nyame SPLM; signed reconciliation with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's Sudan People's Democratic Front 2001; ex-Linguistics Professor Nairobi University...
Presidency: Telar Ring Deng Atuot Dinka Yirol; pharmacist ex-New Sudan Council of Churches a negotiator for Riek Machar in reconciliation with SPLM...
Presidential advisors considered part of government: Riak Gai Kok Nuer; led Riek Machar's talks with NIF for 1996 Khartoum Peace Agreement; once popular head of his Relief Association of Southern Sudan...
Salva Kiir and the man who is now his deputy as Southern leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...
Riek Machar now in Salva's place as Deputy President of Southern Sudan spoke in Rumbek to thousands of mourners on the eve of Garang's burial (in Juba ostensibly reinstated as the prospective Southern capital)...
Salva Kiir Mayardit's 19 August appointment of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Vice-President of Southern Sudan signals continuity and reconciliation...
Riek Machar is Western Nuer though not popular with all Nuer groups...
Some wonder whether he may assume the military leadership leaving the politics to the next in line Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a Western Nuer who broke with Garang in 1991 made 'peace from within' with the Khartoum regime (to the NIF's benefit more than the South's) then reconciled with Garang in 2002...
Focused on the South Southerners welcomed Garang's 19 July appointment of key SPLM leaders Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Nhial Deng Nhial as Southern governors and Salva Kiir Mayardit as Southern Vice-President...
Three deputy chairmen: SPLA Chief of Staff Salva Kiir Mayardiit (Bahr el Ghazal); Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (Upper Nile); Cdr...
Vol 46 No 9 |
- AFRICA
- MARKETS
The deal had been negotiated in Southern Sudan by Sudan People's Liberation Movement International Cooperation and Development Minister Costello Garang Riing Lual and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon now once again a deputy to SPLM chief John Garang de Mabior...