John Garang de Mabior

Thus for most of the Interim little thought was given to the modalities of separation although it should have been obvious that any chance of Southerners voting to live in a ‘united secular Sudan’ had died along with the founder of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) John Garang de Mabior in a mysterious air crash in July 2005 days after he had formed the South’s first interim government...

Anya Nya II later merged into the SPLM/A led by Colonel John Garang de Mabior and Pa’gan was one of its early leaders...

The late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior’s ‘New Sudan’ doctrine called for a united Sudan based on ethnic linguistic religious and economic equality...

) Alison Manani Magaya Interior: Western Equatoria Azande; long-time Labour Minister for National Congress Party in Khartoum; NCP till 2010 now SPLM; veteran 1st AnyaNya war; absorbed into army post-1972 pact with John Garang de Mabior and Salva Kiir...

He warned of greater radicalism and possible military intervention by the party which he said quoting the late John Garang de Mabior was ‘too deformed to be reformed’...

Tens of thousands of jubilant and weeping people cheered South Sudan’s new flag at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba on Independence Day 9 July...

New bank notes bearing the image of the late SPLM-SPLA Chairman John Garang de Mabior appeared on 19 July with the Central Bank of South Sudan exchanging the South Sudan pound one-for-one with the old Sudan pound...

Preparations have been frenetic especially for the main ceremony at the Dr John Garang de Mabior Mausoleum in Juba...

The late SPLM leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior believed the Nuba people symbolised the politically secularist ‘New Sudan’ which would liberate all ‘marginalised peoples’ – thus the recent call by Commander Abdel Aziz Adam el Hilu to overthrow the NCP...

The Canal beloved of the late Colonel John Garang de Mabior who wrote a PhD thesis on it is hugely controversial as it would drain the Sudd a swamp seasonally reaching some 130 000 square kilometres that is fundamental to the Nilotic pastoralist way of life...

In the fighting that ensued Athor attacked Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon’s breakaway SPLA-Nasir faction commanding forces loyal to the SPLA leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior under the leadership of Lt...