And the call on 28 May by Minni Arkou Minnawi the former governor of Darfur and leader of the Sudanese Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) for people to take up arms to defend their rights escalated tensions in El Geneina...
SLM leader Minni Arkou Minnawi travelled to Ndjamena and Amdjarass (the village where Idriss Déby was born) to meet Mahamat Kaka in early June...
Minni Arkoi Minnawi has shrewdly withdrawn his troops from Khartoum moving them towards El Fasher...
Darfur armed groups such as Minni Arkou Minnawi's Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) pretend to be neutral but have used the current chaos to regain the upper hand in some locations close to El Fasher...
A key factor in Darfur will be the stance taken by armed groups such as Minni Arkoi Minnawi's Sudan Liberation Army...
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He employs many former Darfuri fighters including militias who were associated with Minni Arkou Minnawi's Sudan Liberation Army and to a lesser extent Jibril Ibrahim's Justice and Equality Movement...
He has also criticised his former allies Minni Arkou Minnawi leader of the Sudan Liberation Movemment and Jibril Ibrahim the Islamist leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) (AC Vol 60 No 15 Parties divided on sharing power)...
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Helping him in this rebranding has been his alliance since June 2019 with Minni Arkoi Minawi's faction of the Sudanese Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) both of which are anchored in the Zaghawa clan...
The NCP and other Islamists want to be absorbed into the state apparatus by the military, and Juba peace signatories such as the Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) Jibril Ibrahim and the Sudan Liberation Movement's (SLM) Minni Arkoi Minnawi apparently believe they are more likely to acquire power as a gift from the army, than as a mandate from the ballot box...
Ardol attracted the attention of the committee when in May 2021 he pushed gold miners to fund the inauguration of junta-friendly former rebel leader Minni Arkou Minnawi as Darfur governor...
◆ Minni Arkou Minnawi: The current governor of Darfur and the head of Sudanese Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi faction...
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...
