The USA has forgotten its May 2003 secret agreement with the SPLM leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior that Khartoum should be free of Sharia; they have now gone over the head of the Kenyan mediator General Lazaro Sumbeiywo to ask the Nairobi government to press him to push for Islamic law we hear...
John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement...
Bush had even telephoned chief NIF negotiator Ali Osman Sudan People's Liberation Army leader John Garang and President Omer el Beshir to press for a last-minute deal...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Southerners are pressing the SPLA/M chief Colonel John Garang de Mabior to concentrate on the self-determination referendum rather than a 'New' united Sudan...
John Garang de Mabior and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement...
Nuer in-fighting has been impressive too especially since the 1991 split in the SPLA led by Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (a Dok Nuer now back with Colonel John Garang de Mabior's SPLA/M) and Lam Akol Ajawin (also back in the fold)...
John Garang's present path leads to a one-party state; the southern armed groups together with their political allies form the nucleus of an opposition political party...
The NIF's non-negotiable aims The name of Colonel John Garang de Mabior the SPLA/M leader is mentioned hopefully all over Khartoum as it was in 1986 during the civilian Intifada (uprising) which overthrew the dictatorial President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri...
Last week a US official reportedly told John Garang that after Afghanistan and Iraq Washington needed to get rid of the image of a government that 'shoots from the hip' insisting 'We need an agreement'...
The newly personalised roles of Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and the SPLA/M leader John Garang were hailed as breaking the deadlock...
Colonel John Garang says JIUs would form the nucleus of a future national army if the south voted for unity in a referendum...
In June Colonel John Garang's delegation sorely missed the hard won interest of British International Development Secretary Clare Short...