Minni Arkou Minnawi

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...

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)...

It has also hit Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) although it still has fighters in Darfur...

Despite Khartoum's claims about peace Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur's Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdel Wahed is still holed up in Jebel Marra and Minni Arkou Minnawi's SLM-MAM is still dug in somewhere near the Libyan border...

The aim of the referendum was to turn Darfur into 'tribal enclaves' according to Trayo Ahmed Ali the External Relations Secretary of Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Movement...

On 17 October in Paris JEM's boss declared himself SRF Chairman backed by his former rivals from the Sudan Liberation Movement factions Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur and Minni Arkou Minnawi but in defiance of agreed SRF procedure (AC Vol 56 No 21 Dialogue of empty chairs)...

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...

• SLM split on ethnic lines 2004: Secretary General Minni Arkou Minnawi a Zaghawa formed SLM/A-MAM (or -MM); only rebel group to sign DPA 2006; Minni became Assistant to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Chairman Transitional Darfur Regional Authority; DPA failed and in December 2010 he rejoined the rebellion; three factions formed and main one SLM-MM joined SRF in 2011; latest reported clashes with SAF in May North Darfur...

JEM's ambitions don't go down well with the other SRF members which began in Darfur – the two Sudan Liberation Movement wings under Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur and SRF Co-Deputy Chairman Minni Arkou Minnawi...