He is considered close to Beshir's former Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and is on the board of Zadna and Dan Fodio Holdings...
They include the following: The Shaigiya security-business network: The security-business faction dominated by leaders of the Shaigiya ethnic group based along the Nile in northern Sudan such as Ali Osman Mohammed Taha former Vice President and General Salah Abdullah 'Gosh' the sacked director of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS – renamed the GIS and now under the interior ministry) have been big losers under the transitional government (AC Vol 60 No 8 The revolution rumbles on & Vol 60 No 16 From revolution to realpolitik)...
Some of the top Islamist ideologues such as former deputy to Beshir Ali Osman Mohammed Taha and the mercurial Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e have been detained...
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Second Secretary in Syria in 1990 he rose rapidly to run the then Foreign Minister Ali Osman Mohamed Taha's office in the mid-1990s...
One of his conditions for this was that ex-Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and former security boss Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e whom he had not forgiven for turning their backs on him be sidelined...
He upset Ali Osman Mohamed Taha by favouring Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e's people we understand...
Some such as ex-VP Ali Osman Mohamed Taha or ex-security supremo Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e told their constituents in the Northern and Nile states to vote for 'independents' (i...
Pulling together On the parliamentary committee awarding Omer more power are leaders who earlier had ring-fenced his powers such as Ali Osman Mohamed Taha Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e and Ahmed Ibrahim el Tahir...
Parties for the Dialogue without conditions• NCP: President Omer Hassan el Beshir; 45-member Leadership Office includes Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour Bakri Hassan Salih Raja Hassan Khalifa Ali Osman Mohamed Taha Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e Mustafa Osman Ismail and Ali Ahmed Kurti...
Ali Osman Mohamed Taha 69 lead negotiator of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and for years deputy to Islamist guru Hassan Abdullah el Turabi resigned as First Vice-President to ‘make way for younger people'...