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Major General Luke Aprezi

Commander of the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS)

Career: Officer, Nigerian Army; Chief of Operations, Nigerian Army; Commander ECOMOG; Force Commander, African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS); member of the Aaron team, 2009 to date. 

Commentary: In late 2006, as Commander of the AMIS peacekeeping force, Aprezi recommended that the disarming of the Janjaweed ‘be started immediately’. He also reported that the Sudanese government continued to arm the Janjaweed. In late 2009, he was named a member of the Aaron team, appointed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to negotiate on behalf of the Delta.