Lam Akol Ajawin

Long-standing dissident Lam Akol Ajawin dismissed the National Dialogue as a 'a futile attempt to impose one viewpoint on our people and sneak through the back door controversial issues that were at the centre of conflict in the country...

The South Sudan Opposition Alliance which is in disarray amid a leadership battle between factions led by Gabriel Changson Chang and Lam Akol does not yet have a clear vice-president designate and did not receive an invitation as a result (AC Vol 59 No 15 Sanctions and splits)...

Led by prominent Shilluk politician Lam Akol Ajawin who was alongside Riek Machar during the 1991 split in the SPLA and subsequently went over to the Khartoum government during the last civil war and then formed the SPLM-Democratic Change faction...

Lam Akol a veteran Shilluk opposition politician with close ties to Khartoum covets this post...

That it is even within the realm of possibility that Riek Lam Akol and John Garang's widow could be brought into Juba as Vice-Presidents indicates just how little has changed in nearly 30 years...

The split in the SPLA led by by Riek and Lam Akol in 1991 against John Garang opened up a Pandora's box of ethnic bloodletting that begat many of South Sudan's present troubles...

In Unity State Ruai Kuol Jal a key rebel leader from Rubkona county broke away from the SPLA-IO to form his own National People's Alliance which has formed an alliance with the National Democratic Movement of ex-minister Lam Akol Ajawin...

In 1991 a young Taban followed Riek and Lam Akol Ajawin (who jumped ship for the umpteenth time on 28 July this time from the Juba government) in their split from Garang...

• Rebecca Joshua Okwaci*: Roads & Bridges; Ex-Post and Telecommunications; Master's in Communications Daystar University (private Christian) Nairobi Kenya; pioneering Radio SPLA announcer from Ethiopia known as Voice of the Revolution during North-South war; later influential women's peace movement founder; Shilluk; ex-wife of Lam Akol Ajawin...

Lam Akol Ajawin: Agriculture & Food Security; serial signatory of agreements with Khartoum and later Juba; joined Riek Machar in 1991 SPLM split; rejoined SPLM; 2009 formed SPLM-Democratic Change now just 'Democratic Change'; Shilluk; chemical and oil engineer; ex-husband of Rebecca Joshua...

In 1992 he signed the Frankfurt Agreement with Lam Akol Ajawin of South Sudan the first of several agreements between Lam and the NIF regime...

Although the largest opposition party in Parliament Lam Akol Ajawin's DC has for Equatorians the disadvantage that its five legislators are all from the Shilluk people of the far north-east...

This has fuelled rivalry between Lam Akol Ajawin of Democratic Change (ex-SPLM-DC) and Martin Elia Lomuro of the South Sudan Democratic Forum as to who is opposition leader...