The eastern resistance strengthened when the late SPLM/A leader John Garang de Mabior opened a front in Northern Sudan to divert government forces from the South...
The late SPLM/A boss John Garang de Mabior opposed this until the CPA confirmed the SPLM would be in charge in the South while he became both national First Vice-President and President of the Government of South Sudan (GOSS)...
When Salva Kiir took over after John Garang's death on 30 July he abandoned the SPLM's tough approach...
John Garang's reputation as a liberator is intact; Southerners liken him to Moses who led the Israelites out of Egypt towards the promised land but did not reach it himself...
Many lament the death in July of Colonel John Garang de Mabior the only SPLM/SPLA leader to appear interested in Sudanese unity...
Even John Garang had urged NDA leaders not to make a fuss about their exclusion from the GNU in which no Southerner expects to exercise real power...
The regime quietly pushed the NGO law through on 4 August in the stunned gap between Vice-President John Garang's death on 30 July and Salva Kiir Mayardit's succession on 11 August (AC Vol 46 No 17)...
Museveni announced a new clampdown at a memorial service for Southern Sudanese leader John Garang...
Only days after the death of the Southern Sudanese leader John Garang de Mabior some senior officials of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army were quietly commenting that the tragedy of his death might in the end benefit the South...
After John Garang's death on 30 July Salva had little choice: solidarity is the slogan and Riek is seen as his closest rival...
Vol 46 No 17 |
- SUDAN
- AFRICA
Sudanese Vice-President John Garang's death in a helicopter crash on 30 July (see Feature) highlights the danger of African travel especially in vast roadless countries such as Congo-Kinshasa or Sudan where flying is the only way for politicians to get around...
Three weeks previously as part of January's peace accord John Garang de Mabior had been sworn in as Sudan's first Southern non-Muslim First Vice-President amid jubilation from Southerners and many Northerners (AC Vol 46 No 15)...
