Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

Beyond that they had failed publicly to identify the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Khartoum as mainly responsible for blocking the completion of the ‘unfinished business’ of the CPA including oil and border details and treated Salva Kiir’s and President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s governments even-handedly...

Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has talked up the prospect of full-fledged armed conflict...

In early November Khartoum’s army and what President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir hailed as ‘mujahideen’ recaptured Kurmuk a Blue Nile former slaving town on the Ethiopian border long held by the SPLA...

The star guest was Yasir who stood against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in last year’s presidential election eventually withdrawing because of fraud by the ruling NCP (aka National Islamic Front NIF)...

Omer el Beshir’s uncle Intibaha Editor El Tayeb Mustafa has sued him for ‘undermining the state’ (which carries the death penalty)...

However Mutharika’s government opened its arms for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

In 2009 Nice failed to get the ICC to drop charges against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and later when retained by the Kenyan government against those accused of organising post-election violence (AC Vol 49 No 22 Calling politicians to account & AC Vol 50 No 4 A mutual security pact & AC Vol 52 No 8 Six in the dock)...

When a Nuba enquired why President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had told a pre-election rally in South Kordofan that the NCP would win either ‘by the ballot box or the bullet box’ a visibly uneasy Sudanese Ambassador Abdullahi Hamed Ali el Azrag first denied that Field Marshal Omer had uttered the threat but then under audience pressure insisted it was a response to SPLM threats...

It also blocked moves against the Burmese regime in 2007 softened criticism of Iran’s nuclear programme and criticised the ICC’s warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued for Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

Then instead of presenting the lowered Sudanese flag to Northern President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir as protocol dictated Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit held it back for the Southern heritage museum...

CORRECTION: In AC Vol 52 No 13 we unintentionally demoted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to Lieutenant General...