Nor was the image of civilian rule helped by the International Monetary Fund-backed policies adopted by Hamdok and his Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim which are causing widespread hardship while economic benefits are slow to appear (Dispatches 18/5/21 Prime Minister Hamdok wins critical backing for economic turnaround)...
The army has some civilians on its side in the showdown with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) including the Sudan Liberation Army's Minni Minnawi and the Justice and Equality Movement's leader Jibril Ibrahim (who is also the finance minister) who signed the Juba Peace Agreement a year ago...
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Under new Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim many of these companies are meant to be under treasury surveillance but local anti-corruption activists say that political ideologues and security officials are pushing back hard...
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The close relations became evident when the military agreed to hand over its civilian businesses to the finance ministry that has been headed by JEM leader Jibril Ibrahim since February...
Both it and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) under Jibril Ibrahim's leadership are pushing for positions as governors military officers and perhaps ministers...
But Minnawi and Jibril Ibrahim leader and deputy of the SRF disavow the power-sharing accord saying that it ignores the plan to devolve power from Khartoum and would require two-thirds support from the new 300-member Legislative Assembly to change it (AC Vol 60 No 10 Cutting a deal on a knife-edge)...
The next six months will be dominated by negotiations between the transitional authority and armed opposition groups such as the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minawi the Justice and Equality Movement led by Jibril Ibrahim and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North whose factions are led by Malik Agar and Yasir Arman (AC Vol 57 No 22 The securocrats get stronger)...
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Nasarawa technocrat Jibril Ibrahim is one of the least 'political' choices with a long history of technical achievement in surveying and administering land and property titles in the Federal Capital Territory and nearby...
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This week the defection by JEM-Bashar triggered a rapid response from the original JEM led by Jibril Ibrahim Mohamed: in an ambush in North Darfur it killed JEM-Bashar’s Deputy Commander the veteran Salih Mohamed Jarbo Jamus also indicted by the ICC...
After the raid on Omdurman Khartoum asked Interpol to arrest as terrorists Khalil Ahmed Hussein Adam Ahmed Togut Lisan (since detained in Egypt) Abdel Aziz Usher el Nur Usher and Khalil's British-based economist brother Jibril Ibrahim Mohamed...
