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Malik Agar, August 19, 2009
Malik Agar is a Sudanese politician. In the 1990s, he was the commander of a section of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) military forces along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border south of the Blue Nile to Geissan.[1]
He was elected governor of Blue Nile State in the Republic of the Sudan in April 2010.[2][3] In February 2011 Malik Agar also became chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (northern sector), the part of the SPLM that operates in northern Sudan. The SPLM-NS became a separate political party when Southern Sudan seceded from the Republic of Sudan in July 2011.[4]
On 2 September, Agar was deposed as governor on the orders of President Omar al-Bashir. He fled to the southern part of the state and is reportedly planning a counterattack. He has warned that the Sudan–SPLM conflict may ignite a wider Sudanese civil war.[5]
References
- ^ John Young "Along Ethiopia's Western Frontier: Gambella and Benishangul in Transition", Journal of Modern African Studies, 37 (1999), p. 334
- ^ "SPLM celebrates victory in Blue Nile State", Official website of the Sudan People's Liberation Moverment (accessed 21 March 2011)
- ^ http://www.sudan.gov.sd/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84:2008-07-22-22-02-13&catid=43:2008-06-06-15-24-59&Itemid=71
- ^ "Malik Aggar to head SPLM in the north", Official website of the Sudan People's Liberation Moverment (accessed 21 March 2011)
- ^ "Sudan declares emergency in Blue Nile state". Al Jazeera English. 3 September 2011. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/201192224519995118.html. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
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