There the DFCF opened talks with those armed groups under the umbrella of the Sudanese Revolutionary Forces (SRF) including: Sudanese Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) led by Minni Arkou Minnawi (AC Vol 58 No 1 Money and the military) Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed Sudanese People's Liberation Movement-North (part of the Sudan Call) led by Malik Agar (AC Vol 60 No 10 Cutting a deal on a knife-edge) The TMC has opened talks with JEM and the SLM-MM and in so doing may be weakening plans for a united opposition front...
The Darfur opposition remains split from the rest of the SRF and seasoned Umma Party politician Nasr el Din el Hadi el Mahdi has been given the task of bridging the gap between Malik Agar Eyre's wing which includes Malik's Sudan People's Liberation Army-North and Nasr el Din's Umma and the wing of the Darfur movements led by Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur and Minni Arkou Minnawi (AC Vol 56 No 21 Dialogue of empty chairs)...
This is tempering the damage from the SRF split after the leadership takeover by Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed of the Justice and Equality Movement (AC Vol 57 No 7 Darfur votes under fire)...
JEM is much weaker since Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed Foudeil took over from his brother Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed killed in December 2011...
Leaders are expected to be mandated to take policy decisions by their parties and movements – this is under discussion within Sudan – and Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed of the Justice and Equality Movement is again included (AC Vol 56 No 22 Turabi sans papiers)...
Turabi's timing suggests he thought that by the time he arrived Justice and Equality Movement leader Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed would head the SRF...
However Darfur leaders Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur (Sudan Liberation Movement-AW) Minni Arkou Minnawi (SLM-MAM) and Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed (Justice and Equality Movement) were unable for years to agree on a candidate...
OppositionThe three leading Darfur insurgent organisations joined the armed opposition alliance the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) in 2011: • Justice and Equality Movement: issued first statement November 2001 as Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement; JEM led 2001-11 by Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed former minister in NIF regime; main stated aim: to end marginalisation and racism nationally; founders mostly disaffected Zaghawa Kobe from Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's NIF; December 2011 Khalil killed in air attack; his brother Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed elected Chairman; JEM refused to sign 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA); May 2008 it attacked Omdurman; in 2011 it joined SRF; most recent clashes with government in April in Goz Dango south-west of Nyala...
Senior officials of every party walked for over two hours including Justice and Equality Movement President Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed and Ali Mahmoud Hassanein of the Democratic Unionist Party...
