There are also arguments about the role of Islamist groups such as Al Islah ('Reform') led by Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani once a close ally of the President who has pulled his five MPs out of parliament and joined 22 parties calling for the dissolution of the government (AC Vol 57 No 22 The securocrats get stronger)...
Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani who drove a tank in the 1989 coup and long presented himself as a loyal critic now leads the (Islamist) Reform Now group part of the Future Forces for Change...
After years of presenting himself as a loyal dissident even when a minister Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani leads the Reform Now Movement (AC Vol 54 No 9 Rifts in the regime & Vol 50 No 13 The coup-making government lives on)...
Two NCP breakaways have just left the National Dialogue: serial dissident Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani's Reform Now Movement and the Just Peace Forum of presidential uncle El Tayeb Mustafa (AC Vol 55 No 23 Security leaks and party splits)...
Photo: Gill Lusk Meanwhile Usama Tawfig of the puritanical Sa'aihoun and a senior member of the Reform Now group led by Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani formerly a top NCP figure also said that the leaked documents were genuine because 'It's exactly the ideas they have' and 'until recently we were part of these people and we know them' (AC Vol 54 No 9 Tactics but no strategy)...
The agenda lists: 'The Paris Declaration [between El Sadig el Mahdi and the SRF] and the impact of the SRF statement [presumably the memorandum of understanding signed with Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani and Ahmed Saad Omer (AC Vol 55 No 18 Opposition beams Khartoum glowers)]; Radical and moderate trends in regards to Shiite belief activities in Sudan; President Mbeki's role and Sudanese issues; Elections National Dialogue and peace negotiations – The Priority; New Sudan project and its impact on the national security and economic activity'...
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The photographs show a beaming Malik Agar Eyre head of the Sudan Revolutionary Front and a grim-faced Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani veteran Islamist former minister sitting with their colleagues and in the middle South Africa's ubiquitous ex-President Thabo Mbeki...
• When NCP's Hassan Osman Rizig joined Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani's Reform Now Movement he said the NCP had helped create some 50 other parties (micro but they boost the Dialogue statistics) including: National Reform Party led by Ali Hamouda Salih; Wadi el Nil Congress Omer Babiker Zarroug; Unity of the Nile Valley Abdel Hakim Mohamed Osman Radi; National Islamic Front [sic] Suleiman Hussein Osmanab; Sudanese National Front Organisation Aboud Jabir Said; Progress & Social Justice Mukhtar Obeid Mukhtar; United Umma Party Babiker Ahmed el Amin Digna...
On 28 September 31 senior NCP members including ex-Presidential Advisor and perpetual critic Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani and Hassan Osman Rizig of the NCP leadership office and former Deputy Secretary General of the Sudan Islamic Movement sent a message to Omer (AC Vol 53 No 24 The plot thickens)...
A cheery British national he took over from the frosty Ghazi Salah el Din el Atabani as envoy of choice to Western governments (AC Vol 52 No 5 Democracy heads south)...