January's reconciliation between John Garang and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon means renewed cooperation among their forces in the oil areas...
Vol 43 No 6 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SUDAN
Wal Duany's hopes were dashed almost immediately by the return to the south of Riek Machar in February and his formation of the South Sudan Democratic Front (SSDF)...
Earlier that month the Sudan People's Liberation Army of Colonel John Garang de Mabior had reconciled with the Sudan People's Democratic Front under Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (see Box)...
Beside Garang on the podium sat his old adversary Riek Machar who served the National Islamic Front for ten years being in government for four of those under its 'Peace from Within' programme...
Following the 7 January pact between SPLA boss John Garang and Riek Machar (AC Vol 43 No 1) his ex-deputy who had gone over to the government came an attack on Lundin Petroleum's installations in Muglad Basin...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Mohamed Osman marked Independence Day on 1 January by slamming the NIF (which people still suspect he will join) while on 7 January Garang and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon signed a peace pact after a decade of mutual slaughter...
The NIF signed up to the DOP in 1997 to coopt the southern factions led by Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol Ajawin...
1996; Khartoum Peace Accord I; called 'Peace from Within' this was an NIF bid to bring Riek Machar (Nuer) and Lam Akol (Shilluk) on board...
Efforts to reunite the two main Southern factions - John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army and Riek Machar's Sudan People's Democratic Front - have suffered a setback...
Southern leaders at daggers drawn since 1991 have reached agreement in principle that Riek Machar's forces be reintegrated into the Sudan People's Liberation Army of Colonel John Garang...