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The most dramatic military-security appointment is of Ali Ahmed Kurti as full Foreign Affairs Minister (he was previously State Minister). He is best known for establishing the Popular Defence Forces, the partly press-ganged but increasingly volunteer Islamist militia that has fought the National Islamic Front-National Congress Party jihad from Equatoria to Darfur. In the NIF’s early years, the PDF were deployed in the South and Nuba Mountains to jobs that a still not completely purged army might refuse....

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Ali Ahmed Kurti, Egyptian, Deng Alor Kuol, Yasir Saeed Arman, Somalia, Omer el Beshir, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani, Qutbi el Mahdi Ahmed, Iran

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