Rebel Leader Who Signed Peace Deal With Sudan Last Month Killed By Rival Group

Mohamed Bashar and Suleiman Arko were killed during fighting with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Sudan’s intelligence agency announced on Sunday.
The leader of a breakaway faction of Darfur’s main rebel and his deputy met their end after an attack inside Chad near the border with Sudan.
JEM fighters aboard a 30-vehicle convoy reportedly attacked Bashar’s group while they were having lunch, just a few kilometres from the Sudanese border.
Nahar Osman, an adviser of Bashar, said that his group was attacked, although there has been conflicting reports on who started the fight.

Nahar said in an interview with the Sudan Tribune, that five other members of Bashar’s group were killed, along with a Chadian security officer and two cattle keepers working nearby.
JEM said Bashar’s forces attacked its base forcing them to fight back. Although sources say the main body of JEM rebels appears to have been angry with Bashar for co-operating with the Sudanese government.
Bashar’s rebel faction had signed a peace deal in Doha on April 6 with the Sudanese government to halt 10 years of fighting in Darfur. His top aide Arko led the negotiating team.
Last April, JEM fighters killed a deputy commander of the breakaway faction allied with Bashar