They also question the NCF’s willingness to cooperate with Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s Popular Congress Party which ardently repressed the same opposition when Turabi ran the NIF...
Déby’s government meanwhile hosted armed Darfur oppositionists especially the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by former NIF minister Khalil Ibrahim Mohamed a relative of Déby’s seen as the protégé of NIF guru Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
In 2004 a senior Islamist told an AC source that the area concerned was an ‘Islamic’ oil area ‘reserved’ for Hassan el Turabi and his colleagues...
The thrust of pre-NIF coup politics is indicated by the election of the two Sudan Communist Party leaders Mohamed Ibrahim Nugud and the late Izz el Din Ali Amr in Khartoum’s two richest constituencies and the failure of NIF leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi to win a seat in Khartoum as other parties formed an alliance against him...
That will be the post-electoral challenge for the Consensus Forces which were unable to maintain their consensus enough even to boycott a poll they had all agreed was rigged in advance (including Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and his Popular Congress Party who surprised few by rejecting the boycott by the opposition of which he was theoretically part)...
Vol 51 No 7 |
- SUDAN
- ANALYSIS
Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Popular Congress Party said it would not boycott...
Though JEM says it wants democracy and even sometimes political secularism many see it as ‘the armed wing of the Popular Congress Party’ – the PCP of Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
However from SPLM to the Umma Party no one has forgotten that Hassan el Turabi was the real leader of a regime that killed or tortured tens of thousands of Sudanese...
Clerics gathered for the funeral of Episcopal Church of Sudan Bishop Joseph Marona Biringi on 25 September were astonished when Hassan el Turabi in town for the APPC arrived...
Eritrea has supported for example Sudan's Justice and Equality Movement and Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's Popular Congress both offspring of the NCP...
