Yasir Said Arman (ياسر عرمان) (born October 5, 1962, Al Jazirah) is a

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

ese politician and a leading figure in 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 ...

(SPLM). He was the SPLM's deputy secretary-general for the northern sector and its spokesman. Initially he was presented as the SPLM candidate for the April 2010 presidential election, but the party later chose to boycott the presidential election. After South Sudan's independence on July 9, 2011 and the creation of a separate SPLM party in the

Republic of the Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

(North Sudan), Arman has become the

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of the SPLM-N. Arman is one of the leaders who helped draft and signed the Naivasha agreement of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the war between the north and south of Sudan in 2005. He was the head of the SPLM quota for the parliamentary faction.

Childhood and youth

Yasir Arman belongs to the

Ja'alin The Ja'alin, Ja'aliya, Ja'aliyin or Ja'al ( ar, جعليون) are an Arab or Arabised Nubian tribe in Sudan. The Ja'alin constitute a large portion of the Sudanese Arabs and are one of the three prominent Sudanese Arab tribes in northern Sudan ...

, an arabised Nubian tribe indigenous to Northern Sudan; he was born in Tabat City in the state of Al Jazirah. He joined the

Sudanese Communist Party The Sudanese Communist Party ( abbr. SCP; ar, الحزب الشيوعي السوداني, Al-Hizb al-Shuyui al-Sudani) is a communist party in Sudan. Founded in 1946, it was a major force in Sudanese politics in the early post-independence y ...

as a student in the mid-seventies. Arman was accused of involvement in the deaths of two pro- Islamist students at the Khartoum branch of

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

(now Al-Neelain University), but was subsequently acquitted of the charges in court.

SPLM activist

Arman left the Sudanese Communist Party and joined the SPLM in 1987. He became very close to the former leader

John Garang John Garang de Mabior (June 23, 1945 – July 30, 2005) was a Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader. From 1983 to 2005, he led the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) after the Second Sudanese Civil War, the comprehensive peace agreement ...

. Arman was appointed as a military leader and spokesman. Yasir Arman was arrested with other leaders in December 2009 after attempting to conduct a demonstration in

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

to protest against legislation passed in the

parliament of Sudan The National Legislature ( ar, المجلس التشريعي السوداني, ''Al-Maǧlis al-Ttašriyʿiy'') is the legislative branch of the government of the Republic of the Sudan. Prior to the 2019 coup d'état, the National Legislature w ...

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SPLM-N (al-Agar)

After the secession of South Sudan, Arman remained in the SPLM-N group in Sudan. In the 2017 split of SPLM-N into SPLM-N (Agar) and SPLM-N (al-Hilu), Arman joined the SPLM-N (Agar) faction, becoming its deputy chair.

Personal life

Yasir Arman is married to a daughter of

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Deng Majok, one of the sultans of

South Sudan South Sudan (; din, Paguot Thudän), officially the Republic of South Sudan ( din, Paankɔc Cuëny Thudän), is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the C ...

, and has four children.

References

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Childhood and youth

SPLM activist

SPLM-N (al-Agar)

Personal life

See also

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