Who is the sudanese liberation army

These are the key ones:. The JEM, led by Jibril Ibrahim, is one of two significant groups from the western region of Darfur to sign the peace deal. The group was among mostly non-Arab rebels who took up arms against the government of former leader Omar al-Bashir in , complaining that Darfur was being marginalised. This triggered a brutal repression by the army and mostly-Arab militias. Nur's Movement forces are stationed in the Marrah mountains, a rugged mountain range that extends around kilometers miles from the north of the region to its south between the states of North Darfur and Central Darfur.

It is one of the main movements in the Darfur region that fought fierce battles against al-Bashir's regime. After his defection from Nur's movement, Minnawi continued to fight the al-Bashir government until he signed the Abuja Peace Agreement of with the regime. After that, he quickly returned to war and fighting, accusing al-Bashir government of slowing down the implementation of the agreement.

The movement was founded by Khalil Ibrahim, who had many ministerial positions in al-Bashir's government before he rebelled in and refused to sign the Abuja Peace Agreement of Khalil was killed in February in a fight with al-Bashir regime in the state of Northern Kordofan.

In , the movement was involved in peace negotiations related to Darfur region under the auspices of Qatar and signed two agreements with the Sudanese government, but it soon suspended its participation in the negotiations.

Meanwhile, in April , a splinter faction of the movement led by Mohamed Bishr signed a peace agreement with the Sudanese government in Qatar's capital, Doha. Idris is one of the first people to join Abdel-Wahid Nur's movement. Established in , it is one of the armed movements that defected from Abdel-Wahid Nur movement and currently affiliated to the Revolutionary Front.

After signing a peace agreement in Doha in , the movement's leaders returned to Sudan. The Liberation and Justice Movement is among the most influential movements that signed the peace agreement with al-Bashir's regime and remained so until the fall of the regime in April It was founded three years after Sudan's independence in as the first regional party to represent the eastern part of Sudan.

The general conference of the Beja Congress was held on Oct. Since then, the Beja Congress has been demanding the elimination of marginalization, enhancing the promotion of development and improving public services. However, it was involved in armed action against the government in On Oct. The agreement ended 13 years of armed conflict on the country's eastern borders.

On August 18, , the Equatoria Corps, a military unit composed of southerners, mutinied at Torit. Rather than surrender to Sudanese government authorities, many mutineers disappeared into hiding with their weapons, marking the beginning of the first war in southern Sudan.

By the late s, the war had resulted in the deaths of about , people. Several hundred thousand more southerners hid in the forests or escaped to refugee camps in neighboring countries. By the rebels had developed foreign contacts to obtain weapons and supplies. Israel, for example, trained Anya Nya recruits and shipped weapons via Ethiopia and Uganda to the rebels. Anya Nya also purchased arms from Congolese rebels.