Murders of John Granville and Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama (Khartoum, Sudan | January 1, 2008)
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Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information on the murders of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees John Granville and Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama. On January 1, 2008, Granville and Rahama were heading home after a New Year’s Eve party in Khartoum when they were shot and killed. Two groups separately claimed responsibility for the murders: the now-defunct al-Qa’ida in the Land of the Two Niles (AQTN) and Ansar al-Tawhid (Supporters of Monotheism).
Five men were tried and convicted in the Sudanese legal system for their involvement in the murders. Abdelraouf Abu Zaid Mohamed Hamza, Mohamed Makawi Ibrahim Mohamed, Abdelbasit Alhaj Alhassan Haj Hamad, and Mohanad Osman Yousif Mohamed were sentenced to death by hanging, but they escaped from Khartoum’s Khober Prison one year after their conviction. Mohanad reportedly died in Somalia in May 2011. Abdelraouf was recaptured by Sudanese authorities. Makawi and Abdelbasit remain at large.
John Granville, 33, a former Peace Corps Volunteer and researcher in Cameroon, had been working for USAID in southern Sudan for over three years. His work centered on democracy and governance programs, in which he distributed more than 50,000 wind-up, solar radios to help the citizens in the region exercise their rights and prepare for elections.
Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama, 39, had been working with USAID since 2004 as one of the original members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team for Darfur, Sudan. He later became a driver for the USAID/Sudan mission in Khartoum.
