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Sudan

Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

Date of Birth: 1 January 1944
Place of Birth: Hoshe Bannaga


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Fugitive flees as courts sidelined

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has again escaped the clutches of the International Criminal Court (ICC) but his disruptive appearance at the African Union summit and his hurried flight from Tshwane (Pretoria) will reverberate in Sudan in South Africa and beyond...

That afternoon the three South African judges ruled that the failure to arrest Omer el Beshir contravened the constitution and that he should be arrested and transferred to the custody of the ICC...

The encirclement ended only after Omer el Beshir landed in Khartoum the soldiers said...


The President’s new clothes

With an official turnout of less than half of the registered voters in the 13-16 April elections President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir consoled himself with a dictator-level majority of 94...

Once merely tolerated by the National Islamic Front (now NCP) to keep the army on side (a role the President later handed to Vice-President General Bakri Hassan Salih) Omer el Beshir is now the man his former masters have to please...


A no vote election

Everyone knows that will be Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir by a landslide over 15 obscure candidates ten labelled 'independent'...


Fresh doubts over polls

Both it and the Troika have lost patience with President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime and are more open to the conditions put forward by the opposition...

When Omer el Beshir made a lightning trip to Saudi last week it was the first time he had not visited the holy sites and he took with him not his Defence Minister and close ally Gen...


Grand union on show

Egypt's President Abdel Fatah el Sisi Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed a declaration of principles in Khartoum on 23 March ostensibly resolving all conflict...


One-way ticket

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir who goes abroad for medical treatment enthusiastically backs privatisation: 'We are not going to worship Khartoum Teaching Hospital'...


To vote, talk or fight

As President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir launched his re-election campaign at Merrikh football stadium in Omdurman on 24 February police were breaking up protests across the Nile in Khartoum against the killing of a woman by one of their fellow officers in January...

Omer el Beshir's 22 February visit to Abu Dhabi has not changed minds in the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia we gather (AC Vol 55 No 8 Saudi Arabia targets Khartoum)...


After prayers, no miracles

On 18 February President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir said Western countries had an agenda 'to uproot Islam in Sudan'...


US security and Chinese capital

It was heavyweight US diplomacy that helped to secure the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime in Sudan in 2005 and that made possible South Sudan's Independence in 2011...


More presidential powers

The NCP has responded by putting more power in the hands of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir through constitutional amendments announced on 4 January...


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