Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

The prospect of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir stepping down reflects the ruling National Congress Party’s dilemma over how to tackle growing domestic and regional calls for political change and four months of tough negotiation before Southern Sudan formally secedes...

Heavily praised by Western diplomats for not overtly sabotaging Southern Sudan’s independence referendum President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had no qualms about detaining and beating up oppositionists including several members of former Premier El Sadig el Mahdi’s family in Khartoum...

However Erdogan’s close friendships with Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Syria’s Bashar al Assad points to a limited enthusiasm for democrats and democracy...

France and the United States are seriously considering the African Union (AU)'s requests to defer the International Criminal Court's prosecution of six Kenyan officials and Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir senior African and Western officials have told Africa Confidential...

Returnees who have made it to the South (though not usually in time to vote) angrily blame President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Ahmed Haroun for inciting the Missiriya...

As the clashes continue Presidents Omer el Beshir and Salva Kiir Mayardit met in Khartoum together with the South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki head of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on 27 January in the run up to the African Union summit (see Feature)...

Mr Reasonable Ibrahim a dentist heads the Sudanese Workers’ Trades Union Federation which he has said paid for British barrister Sir Geoffrey Nice to try to block the ICC’s genocide case against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (AC Vol 51 No 15)...

When Abyei member of parliament Arop Madut Arop asked him at Chatham House why Presidential Security Advisor Salah Abdullah Mohamed ‘Gosh’ had said ‘Abyei would be part of the North for ever’ Professor Ibrahim replied that Omer el Beshir was above ‘Salah Gosh and Ibrahim Ghandour’ and the President was committed to the CPA...

In recent weeks President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has several times refused a national unity government – and several times proposed one...

In a London meeting at the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House on 17 January NCP Political Organisations boss Ibrahim Ghandour pre-empted awkward questions about democracy by reminding his audience that Sudan had twice seen civilian uprisings oust military regimes – ‘Tunis reminds us of [General Ibrahim] Abboud and 1985’ – and unprecedentedly added that President Omer el Beshir ‘came to power through a coup’...

Despite President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s public shows of conciliation towards the South – some internationals are impressed we hear – the Khartoum regime has been cracking down on its many opponents in the North...

Omer el Beshir’s stance looks full of contradictions but this is nothing new...

In Khartoum President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s words are harder to misinterpret...

High-level visits continued after President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s July trip to Beijing...