Sentence examples for * spla in from inspiring English sources

Machar, however, soon emerged leading a force of rebel soldiers, known as the SPLA in Opposition (SPLA-IO; aligned with the ruling party splinter group, the SPLM-IO), and called for Kiir to step down.

"There is no relation between the government in Juba and the SPLA in the Nuba mountains or anywhere in the north," SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer told Reuters.

In particular, Bashir's government claims rebels loyal to the Sudan People's Liberation army (SPLA) in the south but based in the northern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile are being directed from Juba.

The new military government held elections in 1986 that restored civilian rule, but the next three years were characterized by political instability, indecisive leadership, and abortive attempts to reach a peaceful settlement with the SPLA in the south.

The last time he quit the SPLA, in March 2011, it was reported to have been over grievances about corruption and tribalism.

Tens of thousands of Nuba soldiers are in the SPLA in the south, and will almost certainly return to their homeland after southern separation - possibly with their weapons.

He quit and re-joined the organisation several times before South Sudan seceded from Sudan, and has previously supported and been supported by Khartoum in fighting against the SPLA, particularly in Unity State, an oil-producing area which was a bastion for anti-SPLA militia during the two-decade north-south war.

In its early years, the SPLA was, in the words of an internal critic, "a militarist instrument intolerant and averse to democratic methods and principles", hostile to politicians and intellectuals.

In the last half of 1989 the SPLA consolidated in towns like Mongalla that surrounded Juba.

He led a splinter SPLA group in 1991 and his Nuer troops massacred Dinkas in Bor town that year.

An SPLA commander in nearby Yirol murmured into his beer that he hoped the capital would be built elsewhere.