Abyei Liberation Front

Abyei Liberation Front
Participant in the Second Sudanese Civil War
Active early 1980s - 1984
Ideology Ngok Dinka protection
Leaders Deng Alor Kuol
Chol Deng Alaak
Area of operations Abyei, South Kordofan, Sudan
Part of Anyanya II
Became Incorporated into the SPLA
Allies South Sudan SPLA
Opponents Sudan Sudanese Army
Sudan Sudanese Police
Misseriya Arab militias

The Abeyi 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]

References

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