Opposition is growing and the NCF is now working more coherently though DUP chief Mohamed Osman el Mirghani’s talks with the NCP and El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi’s warning in Qatar that the South could become a ‘black Israel’ may not help...
Rage against the regime The BNF is led by Ali Mahmoud Hassanein Vice-President of the Democratic Unionist Party-Original but now openly estranged from the DUP’s and the Khatmiyya sect’s leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani...
The DUP President Mohamed Osman el Mirghani continued his current balancing act in a style more usually associated with Umma leader El Sadig Sadeeg el Mahdi...
Head of it and the Khatmiyya sect is Mohamed Osman el Mirghani in the 1990s head of the then opposition umbrella the National Democratic Alliance and active in the mid-1980s peace talks with the SPLM which El Sadig long shunned and which the NIF coup was timed to terminate...
Vol 51 No 7 |
- SUDAN
- ANALYSIS
There are also politicians who dream of returning to power even in coalition with the NCP especially Umma leader El Sadig el Mahdi the Premier the NIF overthrew and Mohamed Osman el Mirghani head of the DUP who has lately been closer to the regime than has El Sadig...
Mohamed Osman el Mirghani’s DUP is already (minus his dissenting deputy Ali Mahmoud Hassanein) discussing a ‘consensus agreement’ with the NCP...
Many in the DUP are now trying to win over party supremo Mohamed Osman el Mirghani who after years of obstinate exile suddenly decided to talk to the regime just when other pliant opposition leaders had more or less given up doing so...
The rival Democratic Unionist Party saw its Chairman Mohamed Osman el Mirghani snipe at Juba from Khartoum fuelling speculation about an election pact with the NCP...
His traditional rival the Democratic Unionist Party plays a discreet role in the alliance: after nearly 20 years of exile its leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani quietly made peace with the regime this year...
Mohamed Osman el Mirghani's Democratic Unionist Party had joined in and only Premier El Sadig el Mahdi was as ever hesitant...