' The Sudan Communist Party has also been declared 'infidel' which could be awkward since it is a leader of the new opposition alliance that includes the man who established Islamist rule Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
As the Justice and Equality Movement (often known as 'Hassan el Turabi's armed wing') continues to be seen as the main rebel group the regime's godfather is a lurking presence whose return to the political frontline seems more possible after JEM's 2008 attack on the capital...
Hassan Abdullah el Turabi had failed to win a seat in Khartoum where the Sudan Communist Party won two...
Hassan Abdullah el Turabi may watch mainly from the wings but the party he nurtured lives on albeit renamed...
Northerners widely assume the census was rigged as was made clear last week at a meeting of a new (or renewed) alliance of 17 parties including the Umma Democratic Unionist Sudanese Communist and Popular Congress (Hassan el Turabi's) with the SPLM as observer...
Conflicting signals Yet at the same time both JEM and officials from Khartoum were holding 'goodwill' talks in Qatar convincing many Sudanese that the Islamist movement was coming together again; Hassan Abdullah el Turabi Sudan's Islamist éminence grise and politically close to the JEM leadership called for unity among Islamists when he emerged from gaol on 9 March (he had been detained for calling for President Omer to be handed over the ICC)...
JEM chief Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed was once an NIF minister while Hassan Abdullah el Turabi has blessed the talks and is close to some Qatari sheikhs...
It was led by Hassan Abdullah el Turabi who on 12 January declared that the man he had put in the Palace Omer el Beshir 'should assume responsibility for whatever is happening in Darfur displacement burning all the villages rapes I mean systematic rapes continuously I mean on a wide scale and the killing'...
The attempt on Mubarak triggered United Nations' sanctions against the National Islamic Front regime then led by Hassan el Turabi (see Feature)...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SUDAN
- BRITAIN
Those who thought that the 1999 split in the National Islamic front when Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was officially sidelined would seriously change Khartoum’s Islamist regime might be surprised to see leaders from each faction appearing together at an international Islamist conference in London...
Presidential Religious affairs advisor Ahmed Ali el Imam from the dominant National Congress (NC) and Beshir Adam Rahma from Hassan el Turabi’s Popular National Congress (PNC) are to speak at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism (CFSOt) on 17-18 October...
Like Hassan el Turabi he is often arrested most recently after the Justice and Equality Movement attacked Omdurman in May...
'The NIF under the leadership of Hassan al-Turabi...
