Hemeti's support was crucial in securing the Darfur governorship for Minni Arkou Minnawi who was the leader of the region's strongest rebel force but it was a position without any real power...
Such demands put them on a collision course with the supporters of the two main armed groups associated with the SRF: the Sudan Liberation Army of Minni Arkou Minnawi and Jibril Ibrahim's Islamist group the Justice and Equality Movement...
Minni Minnawi: The head of the Sudanese Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi faction which is a signatory of the Juba Peace Agreement...
Burhan is also cultivating the political elite of Darfur such as the Sudan Liberation Army's (SLA) Minni Minnawi Jibril Ibrahim (leader of the Justice and Equality Movement and until recently finance minister) Tijani Sissi (chair of the Darfur Regional Authority)...
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The army has some civilians on its side in the showdown with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) including the Sudan Liberation Army's Minni Minnawi and the Justice and Equality Movement's leader Jibril Ibrahim (who is also the finance minister) who signed the Juba Peace Agreement a year ago...
The signing of the peace agreement has also allowed the military to develop close relations with factions of the SRF especially Minni Minnawi's Sudan Liberation Movement and the JEM...
The military was supported in its attempt to subvert the transition by rebel leader Minni Minnawi whose Sudan Liberation Movement is one of the three main rebel groups in the SRF...
The SRF-Minnawi faction: This faction appeared after a dispute over the leadership of the SRF in May 2020 and is headed by Minni Minnawi leader of the Darfur-based Sudan Liberation Movement which claims to represent certain Zaghawa clans (AC Vol 60 No 10 Cutting a deal on a knife-edge)...
Minni Minnawi's two-year term as chairman of the SRF ended last year...
He has formed the Sudanese Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM)...
On behalf of the junta Hemeti met in mid-June with the Sudanese Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) both part of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) (AC Vol 58 No 1 Money and the military)...
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...
