Complicit Dossier

Command, allied forces and mobilisation · former rebel movement aligned with SAF · Sudan (Blue Nile)

SPLM-N (Malik Agar faction)

  • Allied force or mobilisation network
  • Grade A: Official recordStrongest record: official record
  • 1 documented tie · 1 step from the SAF

Also recorded as: SPLM-N Agar; الحركة الشعبية - شمال (عقار)

Leader Malik Agar is deputy chairman of the SAF-led Sovereignty Council; ACSS lists the faction as a Blue Nile armed group supporting SAF. UN SG CAAC report (2024): sexual violence against 1 child attributed to 'the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North Malik Agar faction'. TIP 2024: 'In past years ... SPLM-N Malik Agar conscripted child soldiers'. Chatham House lists SPLM-N among non-state actors involved in the gold sector (faction not specified).

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Records

1

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Grade A: Official record

SPLM-N (Malik Agar faction)

2023-2026 (child conscription: 'past years')

This record documents sexual and gender-based violence. It is hidden until you choose to read it.

  1. 1UN Secretary-General, Children and armed conflict (A/79/878-S/2025/247), Sudan section paras 186-197 · childrenandarmedconflict.un.org · 17 Jun 2025
  2. 2US State Dept, 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Sudan (Tier 3) · 2021-2025.state.gov · Jun 2024
  3. 3Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Mapping the Armed Actors in the Sudan Conflict · africacenter.org · 7 Jul 2026
  4. 4Chatham House (A. Soliman, S. Baldo), Gold and the war in Sudan · chathamhouse.org · 26 Mar 2025

Relationships

1

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Fighting forces · 1

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Geography

Tags come from the recorded jurisdiction and from place names in the records. Coordinates on the map are approximate.

Based in
Sudan
Places
Blue Nile

Position in the network

Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.

Connected to the SAF through official or corroborated records.