The highly official Sudan News Agency quoted Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin on 17 June as giving 'the unconditional consent of Sudan government to the hybrid operation' and said 'this consent was assured by President Al-Bashir on Sunday' [17 June]...
Khartoum also plays a 'Third World' card in its choice of ambassadors: in addition to Foreign Minister Lam Akol it has chosen non-Muslim Southerners for key diplomatic posts...
Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin of the SPLM vocally backs the NC's position...
The biggest target of criticism is Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin but there are many more...
However Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin said Annan had got it wrong: Khartoum had agreed to a 'hybrid operation' with no UN command no 'hybrid force' and far less than the 17 300 personnel that everyone else specified...
This would entail 'technical support' said Lam Akol; such support was of course already in place from the UN North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and governments including Britain France and the USA...
Vol 47 No 15 |
- SUDAN
- UGANDA
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...
Khartoum's Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin failed to attend the closing press conference...
Since the signing a string of ministers including Foreign Minister Lam Akol Ajawin have refused a UN force...
A score of field commanders including the main Messalit commander Khamis Abdullah issued a statement signed by veteran politician Sharif Harir opposing 'peace from within' (a reference to the NIF's success in coopting the Southern rebels Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol in the 1990s)...
Key to Khartoum's propaganda campaign is former Southern rebel Lam Akol Ajawin now Foreign Minister...
Foreign Minister Lam Akol had fronted the charm campaign...
The campaign to win over Arab states has even since the SPLM/A's Lam Akol Ajawin became Foreign Minister last July been fronted by Northern politicians including Lam's predecessor Mustafa Osman Ismail and Ali Ahmed Kurti ex-coordinator of the notorious People's Defence Force militias...
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...
Two politicians from Collo chiefly families are said to oppose his appointment: Foreign Affairs Minister Lam Akol who once sentenced Peter Adwok to death and Pagan Amum Okiech a senior SPLM official and National Democratic Alliance Secretary General and son of Paramount Chief Edward Amum...