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On 17 September Jibril Ibrahim Finance Minister and leader of the Justice and Equality Movement insisted at a press conference in Khartoum that the military would maintain full control of the Sovereignty Council which has power of security defence and foreign relations during the transition to multi-party elections and a veto over everything else...

The NCP and other Islamists want to be absorbed into the state apparatus by the military, and Juba peace signatories such as the Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) Jibril Ibrahim and the Sudan Liberation Movement's (SLM) Minni Arkoi Minnawi apparently believe they are more likely to acquire power as a gift from the army, than as a mandate from the ballot box...

Called the Forces of Freedom and Change for National Accord (FFC-NA) – as opposed to the bona fide civilian body the FFC – the group includes Minawi and current finance minister and Justice and Equality Movement leader Jibril Ibrahim alongside former rebel movement members Ardol Askouri and others from the original FFC...

◆ Jibril Ibrahim: outgoing Minister of Finance and leader of the Justice and Equality Movement...

Jibril Ibrahim finance minister and the leader of Darfuri armed group the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) told Bloomberg News that Sudan was going to privatise military companies...

Another consequence is the probable fall from grace of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader and finance minister Jibril Ibrahim...

Today Islamists in Khartoum see Jibril Ibrahim as little more than a Darfuri politician and a failing finance minister who will have to raise taxes on basic foodstuffs and oil products to avoid a complete economic collapse...

Golden grainMany suspected that Hemeti – who was accompanied by his Minister for Mining and Oil Mohamed Bashir Abunmo as well as by Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim – had another aim on his Russia trip: to secure additional wheat supplies paid for in gold to stave off the mounting social economic crisis...

The junta in Sudan has clearly tried to use this crisis to send a message to the West with General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and a ministerial delegation led by the minister of finance Jibril Ibrahim travelling to Moscow just before Russian troops entered Ukraine...

This is what Jibril Ibrahim has been saying from the very first day of the coup...

Such demands put them on a collision course with the supporters of the two main armed groups associated with the SRF: the Sudan Liberation Army of Minni Arkou Minnawi and Jibril Ibrahim's Islamist group the Justice and Equality Movement...

The same holds for signatories to the JPA such as Minni Arkoi Minawi of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA-Minnawi) and Jibril Ibrahim former finance minister and the Islamist leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)...

Jibril Ibrahim: The head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) also a signatory of the Juba Peace Agreement...