Vol 66 No 18 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
In mid-August a delegation led by Malik Agar Eyre – formerly leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) following South Sudan's secession and now Deputy Chair of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council – visited Juba for talks aimed at strengthening bilateral ties and reviving oil exports via Port Sudan...
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Instead the two factions agreed only to form a small subcommittee to come up with a final communique calling for an end to the war which three Democratic Bloc leaders – Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim Darfur governor Minni Minnawi and Sovereign Council deputy Malik Agar did not sign...
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Meanwhile another Sudanese delegation led by Burhan's deputy on the Sovereignty Council Malik Agar including senior ministers will go to Moscow in the coming months to discuss economic cooperation including mining and agricultural projects...
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Their troops got training in Gedaref and have joined other non-Islamist militias under one umbrella led by Malik Agar...
This loose coordination of former rebel forces under Malik Agar and his Sudan People's Liberation Movement -North (SPLM-N) faction wants to balance the influence of other more Islamist-oriented militias such as the Al Baraa Ibn Malik Brigade that fought alongside SAF in Khartoum in the last few weeks...
In Blue Nile in a very different setting Funj militias led by Abu Shotal are emerging as fresh RSF allies since the Ingassana of Malik Agar are working alongside the SAF...
According to Burhan's ally Malik Agar Riyadh still has 5 000 RSF troops on its border with Yemen...
They also believe that Burhan is not in control of events and cannot stop all the decisions they are making on his behalf (such as deferring to Malik Agar the deputy chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and three senior military leaders on the oversight of the interim cabinet) (AC Vol 64 No 11 A ceasefire with monitors this time)...
The Deputy Chair of Sudan's Sovereignty Council Malik Agar announced in mid-September that a new cabinet would be in place by early October...
The acceptance on 20 May by Malik Agar the leader of a faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in Blue Nile to become Burhan's deputy on the Council of Sovereignty should be seen as capitalising on his current status thanks to the Juba agreement...
Both factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-North) led respectively by Malik Agar and Yasser Arman signed the framework agreement on 5 December...
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An example is the initiative launched by Malik Agar, disputed leader of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N)...