Both indictees seem to be betting therefore on winning the elections and somehow obtaining immunity from prosecution as a result or else copying Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s defiance of the ICC...
Omer el Beshir immediately repudiated the accord sidelining his former intelligence chief...
The largely ceremonial meeting between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir late on 14 July was an attempt by both sides to maintain appearances of good faith...
There East African countries will block sanctions against Juba and Egypt’s new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi will block any action against Omer el Beshir whom he met in Addis...
Vol 53 No 15 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Mediators hoped the talks would gain impetus from a meeting at the Sheraton Hotel Addis Ababa between Salva Kiir and Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir during the AU Summit (which had been transferred at the last minute from Malawi after President Joyce Banda announced that she would have to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Field Marshal Omer if he attended)...
Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda and Foreign Minister Ephraim Mganda Chiume were labelled ‘amateurs’ for refusing to host Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir at the African Union’s July gathering...
On 20 June President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir called a crisis summit of ministers and state governors...
’ As the African Union campaigns against the ICC’s indictment of Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir for genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes many expect such arguments to receive wider currency during Gbagbo’s trial...
His relations with Khartoum were strengthened while he was in power and some in Juba claim that South African officials flew to Khartoum on President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s private jet...
This might include a more forceful approach to the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir which Britain and France promoted but have done little to back in practice...
The AU remains hostile to the ICC indictment of Omer el Beshir...
Déby’s room for manoeuvre was constantly eroded by rebellion backed by Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in retaliation for Deby’s assistance to the Darfur rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) whose rear bases were in Chad...