Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

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...

That is what Khartoum did to Hassan Abdullah el Turabi in 1999-2000 when it faced heavy foreign pressure...

' One architect of this securocracy veteran NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was arrested in a dawn raid on 12 May ostensibly for sponsoring the JEM attack and held for a day...

When the NIF turned into the National Congress and (Hassan el Turabi's) Popular National Congress in 2000 Khalil went to the Netherlands to specialise in community medicine while trying to coordinate with ex-NIF colleagues in the Darfur opposition...

The man who preceded (and shadowed) Lam Akol Ajawin as Foreign Affairs Minister is a regime stalwart: he was founding Deputy Secretary General of Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's 'Islamist International' the Popular Arab Islamic Conference (PAIC) in 1990 now seen as the cradle of Al Qaida (AC Vol 42 No 4)...

Up to a point this has worked well for Beijing: President Omer and the NC are still in power having sidelined key Islamist leader Hassan el Turabi in 1999 but Omer has not proved a pliant leader...

JEM: largely Zaghawa and/or Islamist seen as close to NIF ex-leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi; JEM operates in north-east Chadian-Sudanese border area; close to some Chadian Zaghawa; recently some military action in West and South Darfur...

Smile' was founding Secretary General of Hassan el Turabi's Popular Arab Islamic Conference (PAIC) the Khartoum precursor of Al Qaida...

Khalil a lawyer and former NIF minister is widely seen as close to its Islamist founding guru Hassan el Turabi...