Mohamed Osman el Mirghani

On his way back from a trip to London (where he and Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Sulaf el Din Salih Mohamed Tahir got on well in Whitehall we gather) Ali Osman met NDA chief Mohamed Osman el Mirghani in Cairo...

Insiders said that NDA Chairman Mohamed Osman el Mirghani (not a secularist though he has signed up to a secular constitution) was 'shocked'...

However the New Year saw glimmers of realism from the Democratic Unionist Party and National Democratic Alliance chief Mohamed Osman el Mirghani and the Sudan People's Liberation Army boss Colonel John Garang de Mabior...

The centrality of these questions was recognised in the 1986-89 peace process when many of those now in the NDA (including its Chairperson Democratic Unionist Party leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani) made the first serious bid to end the war...

The NIF will try harder to recruit Democratic Unionist Party boss Mohamed Osman el Mirghani and spread more doubt about his commitment to the opposition National Democratic Alliance...

In Asmara this month President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir met NDA Chairman Mohamed Osman el Mirghani hoping both to tempt the Democratic Unionist Party chief on board (as it tempted his old Umma Party rival El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi) and to demonstrate abroad in time for the UN vote that the NIF was keen to talk to the opposition...

Democratic Unionist Party leader Mohamed Osman el Mirghani gained much kudos from this...

Egyptian leaders seemed to signal their preference for the former (which France then went around quietly backing) when they hosted a closed meeting with President Hosni Mubarak for El Sadig el Mahdi (Umma Party) Mohamed Osman el Mirghani (Democratic Unionist Party) John Garang (SPLA) and Farouk Abu Eissa (left-wing former Foreign Minister and NDA spokesman)...

On 3 June Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister Youssef Wali met Democratic Unionist Party leader and NDA Chairman Mohamed Osman el Mirghani...

While implicitly repeating the NIF's claimed monopoly on Islam Hassan el Turabi was mocking the traditional parties El Sadig Sadeeg el Mahdi's Umma Party and Mohamed Osman el Mirghani's Democratic Unionist Party...