location: Kulbus
notes: Change to armed group: After several weeks of mediation, 13 JEM dissident officers announced that they failed to find a compromised solution with the JEM movement and confirmed their defection from JEM led by Gibril Ibrahim to the splinter faction 'New JEM' led by Mansour Arbab Younis. New JEM wants to remove Ibrahim from the leadership of the movement.
target_text: location: Kulbus, fatalities: 0