Ibrahim is widely considered to have his own agenda: reuniting Beshir's NCP with the Popular Congress Party of the former ruler's late mentor Hassan el Turabi...
He was a leading member of the SIM but founded JEM with his brother Khalil Ibrahim after Beshir moved against his mentor Hassan el Turabi in 1999...
For the first time the Islamist Popular Congress Party – formed by Hassan al Turabi the long-time ideological guide of the Beshir regime – will be talking with components of the FFC including the centrist National Umma Party...
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He has close links with the Popular Congress Party (PCP) of the late Hassan al Turabi who headed the SIM before splits in the organisation in 1999-2000...
But he arrested several qualified cabinet ministers and their advisors then brought in a batch of Islamist politicians from the theoretically defunct National Congress Party and the Popular Congress Party founded by Hassan al Turabi ideological advisor to the 1989 coup...
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They have been obtaining posts within the state for their own allies and have been hoping pundits say to secure their political futures after elections via the Popular Congress Party (PCP) founded by late Islamist leader Hassan al Turabi...
Although he is seen as close to the Islamist parties Burhan has family ties to the family of Mohamed Osman el Mirghani the Sufi patron of the Democratic Unionist Party (AC Vol 57 No 6 The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi)...
Attacks in late April on the headquarters of the Popular Congress Party an Islamist grouping founded by Hassan el Turabi with ties with the ruling party led to condemnation from both the FFC which has maintained impressive discipline so far and the junta (AC Vol 57 No 6 The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi)...
Beshir a paratrooper had seized power in June 1989 backed by Hassan el Turabi a leading Islamist ideologue and a local affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood (AC Vol 57 No 6 The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi)...
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The leader of the group is the President's former assistant Nafie Ali Nafie an NCP power-broker El Beshir sidelined in recent years (AC Vol 57 No 6 The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi)...
Germany whose Chancellor Angela Merkel on 31 December said that 'Islamist terrorism' was the greatest threat to her country is like Britain trying to use Khartoum to block African migration (AC Vol 57 No 6 The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi)...
