Career: Deputy Director-General of NISS, 2004-2009; Director-General of NISS, 2009 - to date.
Atta was promoted from Deputy of NISS to Director after Salah Gosh was moved to become Presidential Adviser on Security Affairs.
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Sudan Tribune - Qatar Emir recieves letter from Sudanese president.
Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Mohamed Atta Al-Mawla Abbas delivered a letter from Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir to Qatar’s Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani in Doha December 23, 2012 (Qatar TV)
Thursday 31 January 2013 January 30, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The director of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Mohamed Atta Abbas al-Moula accused the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of being responsible for all the crises Sudan faced over (...)
Sunday 3 February 2013 February 2, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir returned home on Saturday from Eritrea where he held talks with president Isaias Afewerki. FILE - Sudan’s President Omer Hassan al-Bashir (R) receiving Eritrea’s (...)
Tuesday 27 March 2012 March 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The President of Sudan, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, on Monday decreed the establishment of a committee to undertake “mobilization of Jihadists”, appointing first Vice-President Ali Osman Mohammad Taha as its (...)
Monday 24 December 2012 December 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir today sent a written letter to Qatar’s Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, according to state media. Director of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (...)
Friday 13 July 2012 July 12, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The administration of the protest hit University of Khartoum (UoK) decided on Thursday to close a number of its faculties citing “the need to prepare for exams” as tension looms once again ahead of planned (...)
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 (...)
Friday 23 March 2012 March 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The governing National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan said on Tuesday that an attack allegedly launched by rebels Khartoum accuses South Sudan of aiding will not affect President Omer Al-Bashir’s upcoming visit (...)
Wednesday 18 July 2012 July 16, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Police and security forces are currently clashing with students of Khartoum University (UoK) after they attempted to march in a peaceful protest to the office of the University’s director, Sidiq Haiati, (...)
Monday 6 February 2012 January 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The director-general of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), Mohamed Atta, has claimed that there is no more than nine political detainees in the country, including two from a key (...)
Saturday 24 March 2012 March 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The top negotiators from Sudan and South Sudan on Friday spoke of a new spirit in the discussions on post-independence issues that have dragged on for years. Pagan Amum (left), chief negotiator from South (...)
On Abyei enough is enough2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang
June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence?2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves
17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong
June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
South Sudan civil society alliance ask to meet the president2013-06-12 05:23:59 South Sudan Civil Society Alliance
National Issues Discussed with the Presidential Legal Advisor and Appeal to meet the President
June 7, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, today the (...)
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On Abyei enough is enough 2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence? 2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves 17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement 2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
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