Minni Arkou Minnawi

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...

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...