Sudanese National Alliance (SNA) is a Sudanese political party.
Formed in 1994 as a democratic, secular, non-regional party, the SNA was one of the four original members of the
National Democratic Alliance
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, the coalition of Northern groups and the
Sudan People's Liberation Movement
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM; ar, الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان, ''Al-Ḥarakat ash-Shaʿbiyyat liTaḥrīr as-Sūdān'') is a political party in South Sudan. It was initially founded as the political w ...
in opposition to the
al-Bashir government in
Khartoum
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. From the beginning, former general
Abdel Aziz Khalid was the visible leader of the SNA, although
Amir Babakr was the SNA chairman. During the 1990s, the Sudan Alliance Forces, the armed wing of the SNA, conducted a number of low-level military attacks against Sudanese forces inside the country. The Sudan Alliance Forces merged with the
Sudan People's Liberation Army
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in 2002. Subsequently, the SNA joined the political process in Khartoum. Khalid ran as the SNA candidate for president in the
April 2010 election and received 0.34 percent of the vote.
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, location=Washington, D.C. , url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/cs/pdf/CS_Sudan.pdf , last=Shinn , first=David H. , date=2015 , editor-last=Berry , editor1-first=LaVerle , edition=5th , pages=260 , isbn=978-0-8444-0750-0 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629104953/https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/cs/pdf/CS_Sudan.pdf , archive-date=29 June 2016 , postscript=. {{PD-notice Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.
References
Political parties in Sudan