الأدوار المشبوهة للبروفيسور تيسير محمد أحمد في إريتريا .. إلى أين ؟ -بقلم الأستاذ /إبراهيم أحمد

Quote: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) The NDA was founded in October 1989 to unite the opposition against the then NIF government of General al-Bashir, and has encompassed, at various times, the SPLM/A, DUP, Umma Party and many others. It is now a loose federation headed by a Leadership Council chaired by DUP leader Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani and including representatives of all the opposition parties with the exception of the SLM/A and the Umma Party, which suspended its NDA membership in 2000. It is largely inactive, its demise precipitated by the DUP's return to Khartoum-based politics following the June 2005 Cairo Agreement , the SPLM/A's inclusion in the Government of National Unity in July 2005, the Eastern Front's insistence on pursuing its own agreement with the GoS, and the foundation in June 2006 of the National Redemption Front (see below). Eastern parties Formed in the 1960s to voice the Beja people's grievances over the marginalization of eastern Sudan, the Beja Congress launched an armed struggle in 1994 in frustration at lack of progress, gaining effective control over an area of eastern Sudan centred around Hamesh Koreb. The Beja Congress joined the NDA in 1995 but rivalry with the DUP and disappointment with the scope of the 2005 Cairo Agreement between the government and the NDA led it to merge with the Free Lions to form the Eastern Front and seek a separate negotiating track with the Government of National Unity. The Beja's five major tribes together number some 2.2 million and were immortalized by Rudyard Kipling as the "fuzzy wuzzy." The Free Lions is the political/military wing of the Rashaida tribe, an Arab nomadic tribe that emigrated to eastern Sudan from the Arabian peninsula in the 19th century. It is headed by Commander Salim Mabrouk Mubarak. The Eastern Front , formed in 2005 by the Beja Congress, the Rashaida Free Lions and others resident in eastern Sudan such as the Shukriyya and the Nubians, negotiated a peace agreement with the government in 2006 under Eritrean mediation. It is nominally headed by a triumvirate of Musa Mohamed, Amna Derar and Salim Mabrouk Mubarak http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/sudan/profiles.php