Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

National Umma Party leader El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi was there, as was Sadig’s brother-in-law, Hassan Abdullah el Turabi, founding father of the NCP (then National Islamic Front, NIF)...

Even fellow Islamists from Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party call for ‘regime change’, fuelling suspicion that they are the NCP’s reserve team...

Until November, he was senior in Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party and the NCP accused him of conspiracy in 2007...

A letter to the National Congress Party has emerged this week from some 1,000 Islamist activists, including Salafists, secretly egged on by Hassan el Turabi, we hear...

JEM insists it has no connection to NIF former leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi, who offered warm condolences...

Others who may join and were mostly representated at the London rally include: • the Beja Congress (the long established ethnically-based party of Eastern Sudan); • Ahmed Ibrahim Diraige, a veteran political secularist and Governor of Darfur under Nimeiri, and his Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance; • Ali Mahmoud Hassanein’s Broad National Front (AC Vol 51 No 21, Northern opposition faces increasing duress), which has been split by the NCP, we hear; • Kush Liberation Movement (far North, Nubian); • Sudan Communist Party (once very powerful); • Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party (PCP), which split from the NIF...

Northern politicians, including El Sadig Sadeeg el Mahdi and his brother-in-law, Hassan Abdullah el Turabi, could hardly compete...

NIF guru Hassan Abdullah el Turabi, who had already enforced a version of Islamic Law in September 1985, was typically ambivalent: Bin Laden ‘had good intentions’ but the 9-11 attacks were ‘a mistake’...

These are skills that served him well when he was deputy to Hassan Abdullah el Turabi in the Popular Arab Islamic Conference in the early 1990s...

Qaradawi is boycotting Khartoum until Hassan el Turabi is again freed from gaol...