No visible plans to disarm militias Speaking from his high-rise office in Khartoum Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman told Africa Confidential he had seen no plans to disarm the Arab militias; 'That's being handled by the security people' but said that the Joint Implementation Committee of Sudanese and UN officials set up to implement an earlier Darfur peace plan agreed between President Omer el Beshir and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had developed 'a roadmap' for security in Darfur...
After a two-hour meeting with President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir Obasanjo told journalists: 'We have to mix disarmament with a political solution' but when pressed he said 'If the need arises we are ready to increase it [the force] up to three battalions'...
Chirac feels let down by Omer el Beshir with whom he had got on well...
Retired General Powell towered unsmilingly over a beaming President Omer el Beshir (a less retired general)...
The JEM has a well organised diaspora composed largely of Islamists; they say they fell out with President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and regime strongman Ali Osman but they maintain strong links to the regime's former strongman Hassan Abdullah el Turabi (AC Vol 45 No 7)...
Its only visible spokesperson lives in France: Khalil Ibrahim a medical doctor who was an advisor to NIF hardliner El Tayeb Mohamed Kheir ('Tayeb Sikha': Iron Bar) Darfur Governor in the 1990s and now Security Advisor to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...
Senior Ugandan officials say they are satisfied that Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Defence Minister Gen...
Bush had even telephoned chief NIF negotiator Ali Osman Sudan People's Liberation Army leader John Garang and President Omer el Beshir to press for a last-minute deal...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
In late December President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir extended the state of emergency to 'protect the peace'...
Akher Laaza attacked President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and his ruling faction and said it was seeking 'to confirm the initial information' it had...
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...