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SPLA welcomes "the Bashir coup"

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    The leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) John Garang has welcomed what he called "the Bashir coup" as a crisis that marked "the beginning of the end of the NIF (the National Islamic Front - renamed the National Congress Party) and its regime". The relative power balance in the Sudanese army between three factions: the Bashir and Turabi
    factions of the NIF, and "a non-NIF faction, by far the largest group in the army" would be critical in the resolution of the crisis in Khartoum, Garang said in a press release. He also called on the Sudanese people "to remain vigilant and use the crisis within the NIF to bring about full and real change" in the country.

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