The NIF has rallied Arab governments to back the unity of what President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is particularly fond of calling an Arab and Muslim country...
President Omer el Beshir and a senior ministerial team were doing the same at the Organisation of Islamic Conference meeting in Malaysia last week...
Known as a man of principle and courage Gabriel Zubeir (a Balanda from Wau area) has survived serious confrontations with President Omer el Beshir and his regime...
President Omer el Beshir told the mediators to 'go to hell' amid a campaign to undermine the chief mediator General Lazaro Sumbeiywo (to fuel differences between ex-President Daniel arap Moi's security chief and the new Nairobi government)...
Since it's not President Omer el Beshir who makes most decisions this would leave both in limbo which may be just where the inner core NIF wants them...
Thus on 18 June President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir admitted for the first time why the National Islamic Front had made its coup d'état when it did...
This suits potential candidates for an SR - Algeria Congo-Kinshasa Zimbabwe and Togo (whose Defence Minister Major General Tidjani Assani met President Omer el Beshir in Khartoum in March)...
Like Egypt Baghdad's secular regime backed the Khartoum government hoping to use its military-Arab nationalist component (symbolised by Lieutenant General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir) to contain its Islamist element...
However signalling France's entry into another long-running conflict Chirac used a bilateral meeting to tell Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir that he had named Henri Benoît de Coignac a former Ambassador to Ireland as a special envoy to Sudan where peace efforts so far have been led by Britain the USA and Norway...
President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir first promised the south a referendum on 'secession' in his first post-coup speech in July 1989...
Omer el Beshir appeared in three newspapers simultaneously...