Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

On 2 February Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and his leading defence and intelligence officials flew to Asmara for a one-day ‘working visit’...

Asked to join them were Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit who are yet to reach agreement on two outstanding issues: the referendum in Abyei and the status of other disputed and claimed border areas...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had claimed he would defeat the Northern insurgency within three days but 18 months later the rebels begin the new year controlling three times the area that they possessed in the last war an SRF official told Africa Confidential...

Only one other head of state stood on the podium beside President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on 1 January...

The 5 January meeting in Addis Ababa between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir achieved little against the backdrop of claims that Khartoum had again been bombing the South...

Initially China and South Sudan had failed to gel diplomatically; Beijing's support for Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir did not help and economic ties barely extended beyond the oil sector...

After claiming that the Juba government was supporting rebels in Sudan President Omer Hassan el Beshir had threatened to cut off South Sudanese access to the pipeline and port...

Amidst ongoing efforts to get the oil flowing the timing of the loan – the day before Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s visit to Juba on 12 April – is also interesting...

On 15 March President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir sent a message of congratulations to China’s new President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang who officially assumed power at the 12th National People’s Congress...

As economic conditions decline further – annualised inflation was over 45% last month – and rumours spread that President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is fatally ill fissures are opening up in the regime (see Pointer The plot thickens)...