Malik Agar

The acceptance on 20 May by Malik Agar the leader of a faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in Blue Nile to become Burhan's deputy on the Council of Sovereignty should be seen as capitalising on his current status thanks to the Juba agreement...

Both factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-North) led respectively by Malik Agar and Yasser Arman signed the framework agreement on 5 December...

An example is the initiative launched by Malik Agar, disputed leader of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N)...

These include Mubarak Ardol and Ali Askouri who were notable members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North faction led by Malik Agar one of the signatories of the October 2020 Juba Peace Agreement between the regime and a host of rebel groups (AC Vol 63 No 5 Schisms in the junta are widening)...

◆ Mubarak Ardol: a notable member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) faction led by Malik Agar one of the signatories of the October 2020 Juba Peace Agreement...

Three key figures in the SRF – Al Hadi Idris Yahya (the group's chairman) Malik Agar and Al Tahrir Hajar – publicly condemned Burhan's take-over but have opted for realpolitik and remained on the ruling Sovereignty Council...

Notable among those groups are: the Justice and Equality Movement; the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North faction led by Malik Agar (SPLM-N Agar faction); the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transition Council; and the United Popular Front Coalition of eastern Sudanese factions...

The SPLM-North faction based in the Blue Nile led by Malik Agar and Yasir Arman want a settlement without losing face and have been optimistic about the prospects for that...

However as with the fractious Darfuri rebels and those in South Sudan large hold-out sections remain and the majority of the SPLA-N – based in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan under breakaway rebel leader Abdelaziz Adam el Hilu – have refused to engage in the political roadmap agreed by the rival faction of Malik Agar Eyre Gandof and Yassir Said Arman insisting on a return to secular rule as a precondition...

There the DFCF opened talks with those armed groups under the umbrella of the Sudanese Revolutionary Forces (SRF) including: Sudanese Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) led by Minni Arkou Minnawi (AC Vol 58 No 1 Money and the military) Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Gibreel Ibrahim Mohamed Sudanese People's Liberation Movement-North (part of the Sudan Call) led by Malik Agar (AC Vol 60 No 10 Cutting a deal on a knife-edge) The TMC has opened talks with JEM and the SLM-MM and in so doing may be weakening plans for a united opposition front...

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)...