Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

Britain's outgoing Premier Tony Blair had already upped the ante in Johannesburg in May accusing President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir of 'bombing his way to a solution' and speaking of 'bad government and violent oppression'...

This would have been inconceivable in the 1990s when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused the NIF (and specifically Hassan Abdullah el Turabi) of the assassination attempt on him in Addis Ababa in 1995 or when President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir described Saudi Arabian King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al Saud as unfit to be Guardian of the Two Holy Places (Mecca and Medina)...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir who met Issayas in Khartoum last week recently told a visiting American media delegation that the USA was plotting to destabilise Sudan because of its strategic position its rejection of US hegemony and its wealth of resources...

Museveni's government remains deeply suspicious of Khartoum's intentions; last week Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told Interior Minister Rugunda that he was concerned about the open-ended nature of the talks with the LRA in Juba...

Former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius condemned Chirac for inviting Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to the summit as he was 'murderer in chief' in Darfur...

Déby mediated his safe return to Sudan and in the 1998 election he stood against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

As a majority of African states faced down the efforts of Sudan Egypt and the Arab League to win the African Union Chairmanship for Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir the AU summit in Addis Ababa was long on diplomatic tension but short on action...

Kufuor was helped by the fact that he was known and trusted by Africa's two big powers Nigeria and South Africa which led the search to find an alternative to Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

Plans for a United Nations' peacekeeping force in Darfur are making little progress despite President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's formal acceptance by letter of a 'hybrid' force in December (AC Vol 48 No 1)...

Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso has used his stint as African Union Chairman to his political advantage and the AU summit in Addis Ababa at the end of January is likely to give him another six months to avoid the shame of allowing Sudan’s Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir taking over as promised last year...