John Garang de Mabior

The Sudan People' s Liberation Army quickly denied that Beshir and Colonel John Garang would meet on 30-31 August as Khartoum announced...

Enthusing over Khartoum's moves on the South he told the BBC on 25 July of his 'conviction' that Colonel John Garang would 'come on board' stressing that 'The United States Government is not repeat not a party to this conflict'...

João de Matos effectively representing Luanda and Sudan People's Liberation Army leader John Garang de Mabior...

The Sudan Alliance Forces had taken the village in January while Colonel John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army took an area on the south bank of the river...

It was no chance that the southern offensive came first: the SPLA needed victories in the south to restore John Garang's precarious balance between his roles as Commander of the National Democratic Alliance forces (seen by southerners as a Northern outfit) and as dominant southern leader indispensable to both southerners and northerners...

Under the overall command of Colonel John Garang's number two Salva Kiir Mayardiit it captured Kaya Kajo Kaji Morobo (West Nile Bank Front WNBF headquarters) Yei and a string of garrisons in a fortnight along with some 60 tanks vast amounts of weapons including heavy artillery (122 millimetre 130 mm...

Further north it seems Kabila spent much time with Colonel John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army in southern Sudan in the late 1980s...

Colonel John Garang de Mabior's recent achievement is his ascendancy in the NDA: he is now Chairman of the Military Coordination Council...

Colonel John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army-Mainstream took Kurmuk and Geissan and later Maban on the Ethiopian border while Sudan Alliance Forces under Brigadier General Abdel Aziz Khalid Osman and SPLA fighters captured a triangle (Yagoro-Yabashir-Menza) some 80 kilometres south-east of Ed Damazine and eight garrisons...

The NIF may also have believed the NDA's Joint Military Command too disunited to function particularly with a Southerner John Garang in charge...

Kabila's march towards Kisangani opens up a swathe of eastern Zaïre to Ugandan forces and to Colonel John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army exposing the covert and not so convert cooperation between Kabila Rwanda's Vice-President Paul Kagamé Museveni and Garang...

John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army will grow following increased United States' support (AC Vol 37 No 23)...