The Sudan People's Liberation Army chief Colonel John Garang de Mabior has been on a surprise visit to Cairo which produced an unprecedented photograph on 10 May of him relaxing with a smiling President Hosni Mubarak...
John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army...
The government has also agreed the referendum principle with Colonel John Garang de Mabior's mainstream SPLA...
Lam Akol Ajawin Transport (nc): Shilluk; chemical engineer; once friend of northern secularists; with Riek Machar broke from John Garang in 1991; both later joined NIF regime...
Vol 40 No 19 |
- SUDAN
- AFRICA
The component groups of the NDA include the Sudan People's Liberation Army under Colonel John Garang de Mabior Sudan Alliance Forces under Brigadier General Abdel Aziz Khalid Osman Beja Congress Sudan Federal Party Communist Party and the two big Northern parties the Democratic Unionist Party and Umma Party...
The NDA's unpromising gathering was transformed into a success partly by an unusually firm and cohesive speech from the SPLA boss Colonel John Garang de Mabior...
Yussef Kuwa the Nuba rebel leader believes that SPLA leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior is committed to Nuba self-determination...
In 1996 Patassé signed defence pacts with both Chad and Sudan; Sudan’s forces on occasion pursue Colonel John Garang de Mabior’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army right into CAR and often attack the SPLA from Mboki base in Zandeland CAR adjoining Congo and near Sudan...
Egyptian leaders seemed to signal their preference for the former (which France then went around quietly backing) when they hosted a closed meeting with President Hosni Mubarak for El Sadig el Mahdi (Umma Party) Mohamed Osman el Mirghani (Democratic Unionist Party) John Garang (SPLA) and Farouk Abu Eissa (left-wing former Foreign Minister and NDA spokesman)...
* NIF: under opposition military pressure has offered self- determination referendum to various Sudan People' s Liberation Army factions most recently Colonel John Garang's; seen in north as divide-to-rule and time-buying tactic: process can be dragged on; it believes it can buy southern leaders but can only rent them; some in NIF think ‘losing' non-Muslim south is price of power in north; for others southern resistance ‘to Islam' and to the government makes south Dar el Harbera (Land of War as opposed to Dar el Islam); this is sub-text to countless atrocities and in effect to ‘kill or convert' policy; policy of spreading ‘civilisation project' abroad needs south as springboard; Hassan el Turabi has called the south the ‘gateway to Africa'; oil a further reason to hold south...