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Sudanese politician (born 1968)

Suliman Arcua Minnawi (Arabic: سليمان أركو مناوي; born 12 December 1968), also known as "Minni Minnawi" (مني مناوي), 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 organisation split in 2004.

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.^[2] 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