Each urban 'tribe' in Khartoum South's Mayo area (named after the late Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri's 'May Revolution' coup) has an NCP-appointed sultan and since the SPLM began publicly organising in the capital in 2005 they have SPLM sultans too...
Vol 51 No 7 |
- SUDAN
- ANALYSIS
His more active deputy is Professor Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah who was Agriculture Minister under President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri before becoming Northern Region Governor...
President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri's regime claimed a chunk of the Southern region of Bahr el Ghazal for Darfur (around Hofrat en Nahas) and the NCP's demarcation is said to include part of the oilfields from the South...
In the late 1970s President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri allowed the party to function again...
After being President Ja'afar Nimeiri's Education Minister in the mid-1970s barrister Mansour became his Foreign Minister before jumping ship writing books (including 'The Government They Deserve' 1990) joining the UN and later the SPLM where he became a close advisor to Garang while remaining close to the Democratic Unionist Party...
The SFDA's Sharif Harir is also Zaghawa but identified with the political secularism of the 'Modern Forces' which led 1985's overthrow of President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri...
A DA will go to Khartoum in January to revive a section that under President Ja'afar Nimeiri boasted a British Army Training Team (BATT) led in 1977-79 by Special Air Service (SAS) commander General Peter de la Billière...
Sudanese of all political colours agree that this was the biggest spontaneous gathering in the capital since the Intifadah of April 1985 which overthrew President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri...
Omer who came to power as a brigadier general then promoted himself lieutenant general last week appointed himself field marshal in the tradition established by Uganda's Idi Amin Dada and indeed Sudan's President Ja'afar Mohamed Nimeiri...
