SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP - Sudan appoints key rebel leaders to interim government

4/2/2021: AP - Sudan appoints key rebel leaders to interim government, by Noha Elhennawy

 AP report that Sudan has appointed three representatives of armed rebel groups to Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council - Alhadi Idris, a leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Malik Agar, head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North faction in the Blue Nile state, and Al-Taher Abu Bakr Hagar, president of Sudan Liberation Forces.

All fall under the umbrella of the larger Sudan Revolutionary Front, an alliance of armed groups centered in the western Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions, with whom the government signed the Juba peace deal.