Dr Hassan Abdullah el Turabi

Hassan Abdullah el Turabi is the godfather of constitutional Sharia in Sudan first under President Ja’afar Mohamed Nimeiri and then after his NIF seized power in 1989...

El Sadig also attended a meeting in England on 14 November with Yasir Saeed Arman Secretary General of the Sudan Revolutionary Front; Ali el Haj Mohamed of Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party; and his own cousin Nasr el Din el Hadi el Mahdi Deputy SG of the SRF and then Co-Deputy SG of the Umma (AC Vol 52 No 21 Opposition on the march)...

The government has hosted both Hamas and Hezbollah since the guru of the NCP (then called the National Islamic Front NIF) Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and Mustafa Osman Ismail set up the People’s Arab Islamic Conference in Khartoum in 1991 (AC Vol 41 No 13 Hall of mirrors)...

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...