After the meeting broke up the FFC delegation including Yasir Arman Tahir Ishaq and Al Wathiq Albreir said they '…had put forward the need to end the coup and hand over power to the people through a clear roadmap and within the framework of a political process whose parties are the forces for revolution and change on one hand and those who staged the coup on the other...
The SPLM-North faction based in the Blue Nile led by Malik Agar and Yasir Arman want a settlement without losing face and have been optimistic about the prospects for that...
The next six months will be dominated by negotiations between the transitional authority and armed opposition groups such as the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minawi the Justice and Equality Movement led by Jibril Ibrahim and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North whose factions are led by Malik Agar and Yasir Arman (AC Vol 57 No 22 The securocrats get stronger)...
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The dispute pits Nuba supporters of the SPLM-N Deputy Chairperson Abdel Aziz Adam el Hilu who resigned in March against Chairperson Malik Agar's support base among Blue Nile's Ingessana people and against his and Secretary General Yasir Arman's strategy of a coalition with the wider opposition in Sudan Call (AC Vol 58 No 1 Money and the military)...
' Later the Sudan Revolutionary Front's Foreign Relations Secretary Yasir Saeed Arman declared: 'Had we taken part in this dialogue we would all have turned into Abdullah'...
Several opposition participants were already in the Ethiopian capital including Malik Agar Eyre Chairman of both the Sudan Revolutionary Front and of a member organisation the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army-North and Yasir Saeed Arman SRF Foreign Relations Secretary and Secretary General of the SPLM-N...
' Peace not piecemeal However Yasir Saeed Arman SPLM-N Secretary General and SRF Secretary for International Affairs insists the situation is changing as outsiders understand the need for a comprehensive peace agreement rather than the piecemeal approach favoured by the NCP regime and which has made impossible any serious negotiations...
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Aleu publicly accuses Museveni of killing John Garang de Mabior in 2005 and was State (Junior) Interior Minister in Khartoum in the 2005 National Unity Government at a time when Pa'gan and Yasir Saeed Arman now SG of the Sudan Revolutionary Front were arrested and beaten up...
Peacekeepers used as human shields The SPLM-N and SRF Secretary General and chief negotiator Yasir Saeed Arman Saeed told Africa Confidential that the SRF had agreed to temporarily halt bombarding the airstrip and was trying to negotiate a wider ceasefire...
El Sadig also attended a meeting in England on 14 November with Yasir Saeed Arman Secretary General of the Sudan Revolutionary Front; Ali el Haj Mohamed of Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party; and his own cousin Nasr el Din el Hadi el Mahdi Deputy SG of the SRF and then Co-Deputy SG of the Umma (AC Vol 52 No 21 Opposition on the march)...