Sudan rebel group weakening

Authorities held a vehicle belonging to Sudan's rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), led by Khalil Ibrahim, while surveying some regions in South Darfur bordering South Sudan. Aninformed source stated that the vehicle was detained with a JEM member called Haroun Hashim, carrying reports and publications belonging to the movement containing several confessions and notes of the movement’s troops on the field.   According to sources, the reports described the instructions of the JEM leaderhsip – to the troops – as lacking knowledge of the roads and regions controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces, which resulted in many JEM defeats in the last period. The documents included a large number of names from JEM, stating that they were all fed up with the way current leaders managed the group signifying disobedience and defiance of instructions that started showing in the field through the actions of certain individuals. The reports noted that JEM forces did not achieve any victories over the Armed Forces during the last period due to poor direction and lack of proper field planning from the leadership of the movement, which is based in Juba without even minimal knowledge of the field in Darfur, in addition to ignoring the advice of the armed forces. The reports called for the need to pay attention to the conditions of the militant members of the movement, and to provide all required logistics in the field, particularly as the armed forces have full control of all entrances and exits to Darfur. JEM, following the overthrow of Gaddafi’s regime and the improvement of relations between Khartoum and N'Jamena, lost its most prominent supporters and has become subject to Sudanese army attacks in its Darfur base.