Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

This forced the NIF into the open: it chose Ali Osman Mohamed Taha (AC Vol 39 No 1) number two only to Hassan el Turabi...

Their strategy is as much political as military: by cutting lifelines to Khartoum and defeating government forces in the south they believe they can trigger the ‘protected' (by arms) popular uprising and eventually bring down the government of figurehead President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and NIF boss Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...

But the coming dry-season could be critical: if John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army takes Juba the NIF-held capital in the South things could start to unravel very rapidly for Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Islamist government...

The dean of despots Mobutu Sese Seko was chased out in May Sudan's Hassan el Turabi faces coordinated military opposition from north and south Presidents Pascal Lissouba and Ange-Félix Patassé are grimly holding on against armed uprisings and even Nigeria's coup veteran General Sani Abacha has to think twice about plans to win his own presidential election next year...

Whitehall's agenda is more modest than Washington's which envisages the early overthrow of Hassan el Turabi's National Islamic Front regime by the combined northern- based Sudan Alliance Forces and southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Army...

The war against Hassan el Turabi's National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum waged by Sudan Alliance Forces and the SPLA (helped by Asmara Addis Ababa and Kampala) follows the coalition pattern...

The shelving of this and other discussions highlighted the NDA's fragility and fuelled the usual speculation that the Umma and DUP wanted a deal with the government and would soon meet NIF boss Hassan Abdullah el Turabi somewhere abroad...

Sudan strongman Hassan el Turabi threatens to use Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees in Sudan to attack the two governments...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Gáspár Bíró had to abandon a week's visit after a day: Prosecutor General Abdel Rahman Ibrahim (close to NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi) said the government could 'no longer guarantee his safety'because he had just visited Egypt and Eritrea...

An NIF envoy told him of the impending NIF coup in 1989 and invited him to become President he has told confidants but his brother-in-law Hassan el Turabi dismissed the NIF approach as 'crazy'...

On 14 January National Islamic Front boss Hassan Abdullah el Turabi threatened on the BBC that Sudan would respond to Sudanese opposition attacks from Ethiopia by sending Ethiopian dissidents living in Sudanese refugee camps back over the border...