The three individuals named are Humanitarian Affairs State Minister Ahmed Mohamed Harun indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court; Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf head of Military Intelligence and Security; and Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed Achar Foudeil Taha head of the Justice and Equality Movement which has refused to sign the (largely ignored) 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement...
Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed's JEM has been very vocal here not surprisingly since it is left out of most other fora...
The NRF leadership is still open: a temporarily rotating chair allows Abdel Wahed who has problems with JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed to decide whether to join or not: 'He changes his mind three times an hour' complained a close observer...
Khalil Ibrahim is not widely acceptable in Darfur because of his Islamist image government links and the perception of an ethnic Zaghawa agenda...
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM): seen as Islamist linked to NIF founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and ex-NIF minister Ali el Haj Mohamed; Zaghawa-based; led by lawyer Black Book author and former NIF State Minister involved in the South Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed...
National Redemption Front (NRF): founded 30 June 2006 in rejection of DPA; NRF combines G-19 (Khamis Abdullah) Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance and JEM (Khalil Ibrahim)...
The G19 appears to be a key element of the newly formed National Redemption Front (NRF) founded in Asmara Eritrea on 30 June by Dr Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed the leader of Justice and Equality Movement which also refused to sign the DPA former Darfur Governor Ahmed Ibrahim Diraige Dr Sharif Harir of the Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance and Khamis Abdalla Abakar former deputy Chairman of Abdel Wahed's faction...
His brother Dawsa Déby and half-brother Timane Déby along with Tom and Timane Erdimi (the pillars of his regime until 2004) are close to Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Army and especially to Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed's JEM...
In late January some Darfur insurgent groups (Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed's Justice and Equality Movement Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army - both Zaghawa-dominated - plus smaller groups) signed an alliance in N'Djamena hoping to protect themselves by helping Déby...
In Paris he threw away the political high-ground he'd earned by criticising the NIF by holding talks with Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed head of the Justice and Equality Movement who has asylum in France...
He says he left JEM (where he was once deputy to its Chairman Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed) after he was ordered to the Nuba Mountains last April when NIF former boss Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was rearrested for an alleged coup attempt...
Déby seems to hope the NMRD will undermine the JEM whose absentee Zaghawa leader is Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed also from Tine...
Khalil Ibrahim who enjoys political asylum in France was refused on French Foreign Ministry instructions we hear the travel document he needed...
