These are the Justice and Equality Movement now led by the late Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed’s brother Jibreel Ibrahim Mohamed; Sudan Liberation Movement/Army-Minni Arkou Minnawi; and SLM/A-Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur...
The Sudan Revolutionary Front which the SPLM/A-N formed last November in the Nuba town of Kauda with Darfur’s Sudan Liberation Movement factions of Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur and Minni Arkou Minnawi and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) will draw in other groups and continue to build its political structures...
Its members are the SPLM-N (represented by Yasir Saeed Arman Saeed) Justice and Equality Movement (Ahmed Tugud Lissan) Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur’s Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (Abu el Gasim Imam) and Minni Arkou Minnawi’s SLM/A (El Rayah Mahmoud its Deputy President)...
They included: • Nasr el Din cousin of Umma Party leader and former Prime Minister El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi and a veteran of the 1976 attack from Libya by the Umma Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Muslim Brotherhood (later NIF) in a bid to oust President Ja’afar Mohamed Nimeiri; • El Tom Haju the DUP candidate for Sennar State governor and then advisor to the SPLM-N’s elected Blue Nile Governor Malik Agar Eyre (who was sacked this year by the NCP); • Ahmed Hussein Adam the former Spokesman of the Justice and Equality Movement and now Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Advisor to JEM Chairman Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed; • representatives from Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur’s Sudan Liberation Movement faction and ex-Presidential Advisor Minni Arkou Minnawi’s SLM...
Minni Arkou Minnawi leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement faction that joined the government seems to have changed his mind and was several weeks in Juba...
So has the Sudanese Liberation Army say diplomatic sources though they do not specify which SLA faction: Minni Arkou Minnawi’s group joined the Khartoum regime but is now having second thoughts and Minni has been seen in Southern Sudan and Uganda...
Most mentioned is the new Justice Minister Mohamed Bushara Dusa from the Sudan Liberation Movement-Minni Arkou Minnawi faction who signed the DPA...
The trio was Taj el Din Beshir Nyam (United Revolutionary Front Bahar Idriss Abu Garda’s group) Abdel Lateef Mazoul (SLM-Mainstream one of the smaller outfits) and Babiker Khalid (SLM-Democratic led by Ali Abdullah Karabino formerly of SLM-U before that with Minni Arkou Minnawi)...
While the United Nations Security Council endorsed France's (uncritical) backing of Déby which helps the Justice and Equality Movement become Darfur's main armed movement fighting erupted in North Darfur on 10 May between JEM and Minni Arkou Minnawi's faction which signed a peace accord with Khartoum in 2006...
While the SLA fighters of Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur's faction were locked in the Jebel Marra Massif and being challenged in the displaced camps for their inaction; while SLM/A-Unity argued over political and strategic differences among Sharif Harir Suleiman Jamous and its young leader Abdullah Yahia; and while the SLM/A of Minni Arkou Minnawi (now 'Presidential Advisor') sought personal gain JEM saw the opportunity and took it...