African Warlords using blogs to compete with rivals

Rebel leaders in Sudan are using blogs to communicate with each other as part of an ongoing fued as to who actually controls the main rebel group in the country.

The Sudan Tribune reports that the leaders of the main rebel movement in Sudan’s Darfur region were once “brothers in arms”. But last year, the two powerful men had a falling out, and each proclaimed he was the rightful president of the Sudanese Liberation Army. But as much as things getting ugly, no bullets were used, they battled against each other via their blogs.

“I got his e-mails and read those bitter diaries,” said Mohamed al-Nur, a founder of the rebel group, at a conference held in Sudan late last year by the United States to try to bring the two sides together.

“That’s the only place we hear from you — on that Internet!” hooted Saif Haroun, a spokesman for Minni Arko Minnawi, the newly proclaimed leader. “You run your rebellion from a computer?”

Bizarre really. When even warlords have blogs who’s left? :-)

This post was written by

You can visit the for a short bio, more posts, and other information about the author.

Submissions & Subscriptions

Submit the post to Reddit, StumbleUpon, Digg or Del.icio.us.

Did you like it? Then subscribe to our RSS feed!



  1. By Darnell posted on January 16, 2006 at 1:23 pm
    Want an avatar? Get a gravatar! • You can link to this comment

    Hmm…well, it is better arguing with blogs than with bullets. At least discussion is happening as opposed to destructing. ;)

  2. By Bill Peschel posted on January 16, 2006 at 5:53 pm
    Want an avatar? Get a gravatar! • You can link to this comment

    Just be careful of their flame wars.