Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

The National Islamic Front still gets foreign mileage from the much hyped dispute between President Omer el Beshir and chief ideologue Hassan el Turabi...

Cairo and Addis help the NIF The NIF government has been running its charm offensive since the attempt to kill Mubarak when Egypt and Ethiopia both accused Khartoum of harbouring the terrorists and Mubarak himself accused NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi of involvement...

Complaining on 8 June that the banking system was 'all Jewish' Hassan el Turabi said 'We asked the government not to give the Jews and the Christians [senior] positions'...

Smile' also said that removing the sanctions had been his main concern since he became Foreign Minister in February 1998 when Hassan el Turabi's National Islamic Front deputy Ali Osman Mohamed Taha became Vice-President...

The high drama (and useful diversion) acted out between President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and National Islamic Front-founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi is heating up again...

The National Islamic Front is trying harder than ever to woo foreigners and the opposition following the noisy quarrel between the NIF founder and leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and the general he promoted to president Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (AC Vol 41 No 1)...

However Omer's faction of the NIF is no less avowedly Islamist or less determined to prosecute the war against southern Sudanese than Hassan el Turabi's faction...

The tensions between President Omer Hassan el Beshir's group and NIF-founder Hassan el Turabi which surfaced last month did not amount to a coup: Lieutenant General Omer is backed by core NIF hawks led by Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha...

In their first joint mission Egypt's and Libya's foreign ministers Amr Moussa and Omer el Muntasser were in Sudan on 4 January to boost President Omer el Beshir against Hassan el Turabi...

It also noted Hassan el Turabi's involvement...

Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismael agreed to meet the NDA without preconditions while NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi objected that the government had already fulfilled the conditions...

The NIF's decision on 17 September formally to reduce Omer's power again and put Hassan el Turabi officially back on top changes nothing...

Earlier this year though Hassan el Turabi said that oil revenues would be used 'to buy tanks'...