SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: AP - Sudanese rebel groups seek peace after years of fighting

AP profiles Sudan’s rebel groups.

The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), led by Yassir Arman

· An alliance of rebel groups including the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army faction led by Minni Minawi.

· Wants a role transitional government

· Wants its fighters included in Sudan’s military, “something the Sudanese generals are unlikely to accept.”

Sudan Liberation Movement-North, Abdel-Aziz Al-Hilu faction

· Not a part of the SRF

· Largest rebel group in Sudan - controls large chunks of South Kordofan and the Blue Nile.

· Abdel-Aziz Al-Hilu refuses to hold talks with the military council or the pro-democracy movement.

· Al-Hilu threatens an independence movement unless Sudan becomes a secular state, al-Bashir’s militias are disbanded and the military is revamped.

The Sudan Liberation Movemen, Abdelwahid al-Nur faction

· SLM-AW reject the transitional government, and the peace talks.

Challenges

· The rebels lack a common political ideology, contrasting the Islamic-leaning JEM to the secular SLM-N.