John Garang de Mabior

Then soon after the November visit to Cairo by SPLA chief John Garang President Hosni Mubarak (who had met Colonel Garang) improbably announced Khartoum was ‘abandoning terrorism'...

But the coming dry-season could be critical: if John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army takes Juba the NIF-held capital in the South things could start to unravel very rapidly for Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Islamist government...

Since 1994 the LRA has operated from bases in southern Sudan where the Khartoum government gives them arms and sanctuary in return for fighting its own rebels John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army and disrupting roads along which arms flow from Uganda to the SPLA...

The Sudan People' s Liberation Army quickly denied that Beshir and Colonel John Garang would meet on 30-31 August as Khartoum announced...

Enthusing over Khartoum's moves on the South he told the BBC on 25 July of his 'conviction' that Colonel John Garang would 'come on board' stressing that 'The United States Government is not repeat not a party to this conflict'...

João de Matos effectively representing Luanda and Sudan People's Liberation Army leader John Garang de Mabior...

The Sudan Alliance Forces had taken the village in January while Colonel John Garang de Mabior's Sudan People's Liberation Army took an area on the south bank of the river...

It was no chance that the southern offensive came first: the SPLA needed victories in the south to restore John Garang's precarious balance between his roles as Commander of the National Democratic Alliance forces (seen by southerners as a Northern outfit) and as dominant southern leader indispensable to both southerners and northerners...

Under the overall command of Colonel John Garang's number two Salva Kiir Mayardiit it captured Kaya Kajo Kaji Morobo (West Nile Bank Front WNBF headquarters) Yei and a string of garrisons in a fortnight along with some 60 tanks vast amounts of weapons including heavy artillery (122 millimetre 130 mm...

Further north it seems Kabila spent much time with Colonel John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army in southern Sudan in the late 1980s...

Colonel John Garang de Mabior's recent achievement is his ascendancy in the NDA: he is now Chairman of the Military Coordination Council...