Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

It was heavyweight US diplomacy that helped to secure the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime in Sudan in 2005 and that made possible South Sudan's Independence in 2011...

The NCP has responded by putting more power in the hands of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir through constitutional amendments announced on 4 January...

Threats of prosecution by the International Criminal Court against those responsible for crimes against humanity have lost force after the dropping of the Uhuru Kenyatta case and the suspension of preparations for the trial of Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir for genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity...

On the next day President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir promised to purge the 'hirelings and mercenaries' and said no one would come to power except through elections...

The Court had surrendered said President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's trip to Saudi Arabia for the Haj pilgrimage and 'frank discussions' with Crown Prince Deputy Premier and Defence Minister Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saud in September backfired...

It did not respond to the International Criminal Court's pleas to arrest Omer el Beshir during his visit but on 4 November it took the unusual step of contradicting albeit indirectly NCP claims that it had given massive funding to Khartoum...

In the 1990s he was one of the 'gatekeepers' who at that time kept President Omer el Beshir in line...

Some of the reported discussions have been borne out by subsequent events the source pointed out: the security chiefs discussed how to improve relations with Saudi Arabia and a month later President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir turns up in Jeddah for a rare meeting with Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saoud (where Saudi used strong words like 'frank discussions')...

'Sudan was an eager host' says the evidence in this year's hearings and it asserts that President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had sent a personal invitation to Bin Laden...

Washington made it clear that Mugabe would not be invited and nor would Sudan's Omer el Beshir or Eritrea's Issayas Aferworki...

Usually Khartoum boasts of its support for Hamas; President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir again met political leader Khalid Meshaal in Qatar this month...