Lam Akol Ajawin

Many complain of harassment most conspicuously Lam Akol Ajawin again detained by Sudan People's Liberation Army security officers this week and whose SPLM-Democratic Change the SPLM initially and clumsily tried to ban...

Secondly for the presidency of Southern Sudan the incumbent Salva Kiir Mayardit of the SPLM will face former Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin who last year took over the newly formed SPLM-Democratic Change...

While Lam Akol has some support among his Collo (Shilluk) community in Upper Nile and in pockets elsewhere in the South where he can mobilise the discontented including in Equatoria he will not pose a serious challenge partly because he is viewed as a friend of the NCP...

With Lam Akol Ajawin he revolted against Garang 1991 demanding SPLM democracy and Southern independence...

Meanwhile former Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin has formed yet another breakaway calling itself SPLM-Democratic Change...

Smile'); dentist; Presidential Advisor (gatekeeper); shadowed Lam Akol Ajawin (when briefly Foreign Minister); deals with Arab countries; senior in Turabi's Popular Arab Islamic Congress in early 1990s (cradle of Al Qaida)...

The man who preceded (and shadowed) Lam Akol Ajawin as Foreign Affairs Minister is a regime stalwart: he was founding Deputy Secretary General of Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's 'Islamist International' the Popular Arab Islamic Conference (PAIC) in 1990 now seen as the cradle of Al Qaida (AC Vol 42 No 4)...

Like Lam Akol Deng was chosen by the SPLM but unlike Lam he had not split from its late Chairman Colonel John Garang de Mabior and is not cosy with the NC...

Ambassador John Ukec though SPLM appointed emulates former Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin in his enthusiasm for the Khartoum regime...

Five days later after Khartoum was forced to accept that Lam Akol Ajawin the Foreign Affairs Minister would be reshuffled Salva announced that the SPLM would rejoin the GNU but stipulated there must be progress on the key areas of Abyei North-South border demarcation oil revenue and withdrawal of the army from the South by the third anniversary of the CPA on 9 January 2008...

The trigger for the SPLM's quarrel with the NC was Lam Akol who was initially selected by the SPLM as Foreign Affairs Minister but who then switched his loyalties to the NC...

The breaking point was Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin: the SPLM wanted him out; the NC which he has faithfully served wanted him in...

Riek who with Lam Akol Ajawin (now Khartoum's Foreign Minister AC Vol 48 No 13) led the 1991 SPLM split and later went over to the NIF is someone deemed advisable to keep in the tent...