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Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army - North (SPLM-N/SPLA-N)
SPLM-N deputy chairman Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu (L), Chairman Malik Aggar (M), and Secretary-General Yasir Arman (R)
Founded: 2011
Arabic Name: Harakat Al-Sha’abi Li-Tahrir Al-Sudan-Al-Shamal
Status: The SPLM-N is a banned political party and military organisation
Vision: The SPLM-N describes itself as "a Sudanese national movement that seeks to change the policies of the centre in Khartoum and to build a new centre for the benefit of all Sudanese people regardless of their religion, gender or ethnicity background".
Political Affiliations: The SPLM-N founded the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) rebel alliance with the three main Darfur rebel groups in November 2011.
FILE PHOTO - Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) north’s secretary general Yasir Arman speaks during a joint news conference with Malik Agar, head of the northern branch of SPLM, in Khartoum, July 3, 2011, ab
Monday 20 May 2013 May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) has called on the head of the UN’s humanitarian agency to visit areas in Blue Nile, South Kordofan and Darfur outside of Sudanese government control (...)
Friday 17 May 2013 May 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Council of Defence and National Security (CDNS) discussed Thursday the recent attacks by the alliance of rebel groups, Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), while the foreign affairs minister is preparing to (...)
Tuesday 14 May 2013 May 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, has announced that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Mujahideen (holy fighters) are “now” on the outskirts of Abu-Kershola in South Kordofan’s northeast and vowed (...)
Monday 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s National Assembly speaker Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir has issued a warning to the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) saying that its leaders will face death at the hands of the army so long as they are (...)
Sunday 12 May 2013 May 11, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government on Saturday accused South Sudan of providing support to rebels from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) who have recently stepped up their attacks in multiple states across the country. (...)
Tuesday 14 May 2013 May 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Amnesty International has called for the release of Sudanese lawyer and human rights activist Asma Ahmed, who has been detained incommunicado by security services since 4 May, warning she is at risk of torture (...)
Wednesday 1 May 2013 April 30, 2013 (LONDON) - Abdel Aziz Adam El-Hilu, the General Chief of Staff of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) denied on Tuesday reports that he has been killed by the Sudanese military following the rebel alliance’s attack on Um (...)
Tuesday 30 April 2013 April 29, 2013 (KHARTOUM) –The spokesperson of Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), Colonel al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa’ad, says that Khartoum has no evidence linking South Sudan to the rebels’ attack on the North Kordofan town of Um Rawaba. SPLM-N’s top (...)
Wednesday 8 May 2013 May 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s presidential assistant and National Congress Party (NCP) deputy-chairman for the party’s affairs, Nafie Ali Nafie, has threatened to mount a decisive battle against rebel groups which have stepped up their (...)
Thursday 9 May 2013 May 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s National Assembly has decided to suspend its sessions next week in order to enable lawmakers to head to their constituencies and lead a mobilisation campaign in support of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in (...)
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Wau Dialogue W. Bahr el-Ghazal state 13-15 May 20132013-05-13 14:41:35 South Sudan Law Society
13th-April-2013
Citizen of Western Bhar el-Ghazal State calls for limitations of President Powers and the Independence of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary and (...)
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom2013-05-04 10:53:49 Human Rights Watch
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Newspapers, Other Media Censored, Confiscated, Shut Down
MAY 3, 2013
(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom2013-05-03 03:23:16 Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the (...)
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The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
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