Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

Diverse Sudanese stress that while the military-security group around President Omer el Beshir has strengthened its hand that does not mean that the party is no longer Islamist nor that the apparent sidelining of the ‘civilians’ (often militarily trained) is permanent or even real...

Khartoum has the means to delay the Abyei vote (and thereby disrupt the Southern referendum) since the District is governed by the Presidency – President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha – an inbuilt NCP majority...

The ICC is now considering reissuing genocide charges against Field Marshal Omer el Beshir who faces an international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes...

A beaming President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir waved his stick triumphantly as his victory was announced in Khartoum on 26 April...

South Africa had sent a delegation to talk to Sudanese security said SA sources and President Jacob Zuma spoke to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on the telephone...

For Khartoum internationally accepted elections would counter the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

Omer el Beshir may have threatened to cut off the fingers heads and tongues of foreign election monitors but the party calculated that in the name of the CPA it could get away with such threats and indeed with the aerial bombardment of Jebel Marra and Jebel Moon in Darfur that same week...

A furious President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had threatened on 29 March that if the SPLM were to boycott the polls he would delay January's Southern independence referendum the most important issue in Southern political life...

After complaining last year about the electoral procedures it confronted Omer el Beshir directly: 'The Carter Center expresses concern regarding restrictions on citizens' freedom of assembly and freedom of speech under certain provisions in the National Security Forces Act Press and Publications Act and the criminal justice legislation that are incompatible with Sudan's CPA and the Interim National Constitution (INC)...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's campaign manager in the South is his Security Advisor and former NISS Director General Salah Abdullah Mohamed 'Gosh'...

Three activists linked to Redress were in 2008 detained and tortured after publicly supporting the ICC which last year issued an arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

The NCP rallied the AU Arab League Organisation of Islamic Conference and Non-Aligned Movement by claiming the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir threatened peace in both the South and Darfur...

During Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno’s visit to Khartoum Field Marshal Omer el Beshir announced on 10 February that relations with Ndjamena had been ‘normalised’ and that war had ended...

Before International Criminal Court appeals judges ruled on 3 February that the Pre-Trial Chamber must review previously dismissed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir the summit backed a South African move to give the UN General Assembly the means to defer cases at the ICC by a year...