This suits Khartoum: the DPA enabled it to use Minni Arkou Minnawi's rebel faction which signed to attack civilians and other rebels...
Vol 47 No 19 |
- SUDAN
- BRITAIN
The fact that Darfur rebels want UN troops (even Minni Arkou Minnawi's faction of the Sudan Liberation Army now fighting for the Khartoum regime) does not appear to impress...
Their absolutist support for May's badly flawed Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) ties them to the National Congress/National Islamic Front (NC/NIF) regime in Khartoum and to Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/M) - both of which with their records of mass murder are desperately unpopular among Darfurians...
SLM/A-Minni: faction led by Minni Arkou Minnawi founding SLM Secretary General; Zaghawa schoolteacher...
The two signatories the Sudan government and Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) have launched offensives against the rebel groups that refused to sign (AC Vol 47 No 10)...
The value of the Darfur peace deal which was signed in Abuja on 5 May between the Sudan government and Minni Arkou Minnawi's faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement/Army rests mainly on the political support it could lend to efforts to send an international peacekeeping force to protect civilians in the war-ravaged region...
His brother Dawsa Déby and half-brother Timane Déby along with Tom and Timane Erdimi (the pillars of his regime until 2004) are close to Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Army and especially to Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed's JEM...
In late January some Darfur insurgent groups (Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed's Justice and Equality Movement Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army - both Zaghawa-dominated - plus smaller groups) signed an alliance in N'Djamena hoping to protect themselves by helping Déby...
The reserve list also includes rival SLA leaders Abdel Wahid Mohamed el Nur and Minni Arkou Minnawi...
Khartoum was keen on Tripoli until Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's son Seif el Islam recently gave Minni Arkoi Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Army substantial relief donations and 57 Landcruisers...
