Abyei_Liberation_Front

Abyei Liberation Front

Abyei Liberation Front

Sudanese guerrilla organization (early 1980s-1984)

The Abyei Liberation Front was a guerrilla organization in Sudan, active in the Abyei region of South Kordofan in the early 1980s. The group had emerged amongst the Ngok Dinka, in response to attacks on their community by Misseriya Arabs supported by police and army forces. The ALF was one of the armed groups active during this period that were linked to the 'Anyanya II' movement of Southern army mutineers.[1] The commanders of ALF were Deng Alor Kuol and Chol Deng Alaak.[2][3] Around 1984 the ALF was contacted by Sudan People's Liberation Army detachments from Ethiopia and incorporated into the SPLA.[4][5]

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References

  1. [1]
    Ryle, John. The Sudan Handbook. Suffolk: James Currey Ltd, 2011. pp. 127-128
  2. [2]
    Guarak, Mawut Achiecque Mach. Integration and Fragmentation of the Sudan: An African Renaissance. [S.l.]: Authorhouse, 2011. p. 254
  3. [3]
    Gebrewold-Tochalo, Belachew. Anatomy of Violence: Understanding the Systems of Conflict and Violence in Africa. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. p. 173
  4. [4]
    Daly, M. W., and Ahmad Alawad Sikainga. Civil War in the Sudan. London: British Academic Press, 1993. p. 127
  5. [5]
    Clapham, Christopher. African Guerrillas. Oxford [u.a.]: Currey [u.a.], 1998. p. 58


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