Minni Minnawi

Suliman Arcua Minnawi (; born 12 December 1968), also known as "Minni Minnawi" (), is a Sudanese politician and the leader of a faction of the Sudanese Liberation Army. A former educator, Minnawi served as secretary to Sudan Liberation Army leader Abdul Wahid al-Nur before the organization split in 2004. Minnawi has occupied every political identity in modern day Sudan.

He was a prominent rebel commander of the Darfuri rebel group Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) during the 2000s conflict, later signed a peace agreement to join the government, after which he went back into opposition, and was finally appointed Governor of Darfur under a transitional framework after the sigining of the Juba peace accord. Minnawi signed a treaty, known as the Darfur Peace Agreement, with the Khartoum government in May 2006.

Nevertheless, in July 2006, fighting broke out around the North Darfur town of Korma, resulting in the deaths of at least 80 people. In the same year, Minnawi was appointed the top Sudanese official in the Darfur region, as chairman of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority, and was technically the fourth ranking member of the Presidency, as Senior Assistant to the President of the Republic.

On September 14, 2006, in defiance of the central government's opposition, Minnawi supported the new UN peacekeeping force detailed in UNSC Resolution 1706, which was designed to protect the Sudanese people.