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Kamal Abdel-Ma’Rouf | Kamal Marof Kamal Abdel-Ma’Rouf | Kamal Marof
Name: Kamal Abdel-Ma’Rouf | Kamal Marof
Rank: Major General
Position: Commander-in-Chief of the "Heglig Liberation Operation" conducted by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in April 2012 against South Sudan’s army (SPLA) to retake the oil region after a 10-day SPLA occupation.
Abdel-Ma’Rouf was one of those reported to have been arrested on 22 November 2012 in reponse to an alleged "sabotage attempt". However, later that Sudan army spokesperson Al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa’ad denied that Abdel-Ma’Rouf was arrested and disclosed that he is currently in South Kordofan.
- Tuesday 24 April 2012
April 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese President Omer Al-Bashir has given his army a carte blanche to use “the language of the gun” against neighbouring South Sudan in retaliation to the latter’s occupation of the disputed Heglig region two (...)
- Wednesday 25 April 2012
April 24, 2012 (LONDON) - Sudan resumed its bombing of South Sudan’s Unity State on Tuesday, the military claimed, a day after two people were killed when bombs landed near the state’s capital Bentiu. Sudanese military soldiers flash (...)
- Friday 23 November 2012
November 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities moved in the early hours of Thursday to foil what it claimed was a "subversive plot" planned by elements from the army, the paramilitary Popular Defense Forces (PDF), National Security (...)
- Friday 23 November 2012
By Muhammad Osman
November 22, 2012 (NAIROBI) – Heavy confusion is surrounding the alleged foiling by Sudanese intelligence authorities of a “subversive plot” as well as the subsequent arrests or interrogations of high-profile figures (...)
- Thursday 22 November 2012
November 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s former director of National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), Salah Gosh, has been arrested in connection with the alleged sabotage uncovered today. Sudan’s former director of National (...)
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