The Prime Minister that the National Islamic Front (NIF) overthrew in 1989 El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi sees a chance to win back power as conflict deepens at the core of the Khartoum regime (AC Vol 53 No 24 The new gold rush)...
Pressure is meanwhile mounting on El Sadig el Mahdi leader of the largest party the National Umma Party to clarify his position on the protests and armed opposition something he is expert at avoiding...
Ex-Premier El Sadig el Mahdi wants to take the helm but is vacillating (AC Vol 53 No 13 No horizon)...
The vacillating National Umma Party leader El Sadig el Mahdi has tacitly aligned with the SRF (AC Vol 53 No 11 Rockets and meetings)...
Joining them in late December was El Sadig el Hadi el Mahdi a former London exile who joined up with the NCP in 2001 and is a nephew of El Sadig el Mahdi and brother of Nasr el Din el Hadi el Mahdi the Umma Party Co-Deputy President who is also active in the broad opposition alliance...
In Khartoum angry activists tried to shout down ex-Prime Minister El Sadig el Mahdi during an Independence Day speech on 1 January when he advocated talking to the regime rather than trying to overthrow it – although he said that joining it would not change it...
Opposition is growing and the NCF is now working more coherently though DUP chief Mohamed Osman el Mirghani’s talks with the NCP and El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi’s warning in Qatar that the South could become a ‘black Israel’ may not help...
Heavily praised by Western diplomats for not overtly sabotaging Southern Sudan’s independence referendum President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had no qualms about detaining and beating up oppositionists including several members of former Premier El Sadig el Mahdi’s family in Khartoum...
The ‘Consensus’ of NCF theoretically includes the NCP a line irregularly followed by both El Sadig el Mahdi and Mohamed Osman...
After much dithering the Umma’s El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi had decided eventually not to boycott but was forced to cave in to pressure from senior party people...
