The junta in Sudan has clearly tried to use this crisis to send a message to the West with General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and a ministerial delegation led by the minister of finance Jibril Ibrahim travelling to Moscow just before Russian troops entered Ukraine...

This is what Jibril Ibrahim has been saying from the very first day of the coup...

Such demands put them on a collision course with the supporters of the two main armed groups associated with the SRF: the Sudan Liberation Army of Minni Arkou Minnawi and Jibril Ibrahim's Islamist group the Justice and Equality Movement...

The same holds for signatories to the JPA such as Minni Arkoi Minawi of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA-Minnawi) and Jibril Ibrahim former finance minister and the Islamist leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)...

Jibril Ibrahim: The head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) also a signatory of the Juba Peace Agreement...

This will mean that the pro-Burhan leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and finance minister Jibril Ibrahim will be setting economic policy without reference to Hamdok...

Burhan is also cultivating the political elite of Darfur such as the Sudan Liberation Army's (SLA) Minni Minnawi Jibril Ibrahim (leader of the Justice and Equality Movement and until recently finance minister) Tijani Sissi (chair of the Darfur Regional Authority)...

The only senior politicians to prepare the ground for the coup Minni Minawi of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA-Minnawi) and Jibril Ibrahim the Islamist leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) faced pressures within their own movements not to endorse it...

Nor was the image of civilian rule helped by the International Monetary Fund-backed policies adopted by Hamdok and his Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim which are causing widespread hardship while economic benefits are slow to appear (Dispatches 18/5/21 Prime Minister Hamdok wins critical backing for economic turnaround)...

The army has some civilians on its side in the showdown with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) including the Sudan Liberation Army's Minni Minnawi and the Justice and Equality Movement's leader Jibril Ibrahim (who is also the finance minister) who signed the Juba Peace Agreement a year ago...

The close relations became evident when the military agreed to hand over its civilian businesses to the finance ministry that has been headed by JEM leader Jibril Ibrahim since February...