Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

Senior aides to Garang say Riek first expressed his wish for unity in a letter to Garang and the SPLA on 31 December over a year after he resigned as Assistant Vice-President to President Omer el Beshir and left Khartoum for the south...

Then when his NIF seized power in 1989 he was detained enabling the NIF to consolidate its hold while pretending the coup was merely military under President Omer el Beshir...

The contradictions are epitomised in the year-long quarrel between Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha's group (fronted by President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir) and Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...

In Asmara this month President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir met NDA Chairman Mohamed Osman el Mirghani hoping both to tempt the Democratic Unionist Party chief on board (as it tempted his old Umma Party rival El Sadig Sideeg el Mahdi) and to demonstrate abroad in time for the UN vote that the NIF was keen to talk to the opposition...

The National Islamic Front still gets foreign mileage from the much hyped dispute between President Omer el Beshir and chief ideologue Hassan el Turabi...

Days later just before President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir went to Kuwait Mustafa signed a decree dissolving the PAIC again...

On 16 June Lieutenant General Omer el Beshir again declared that the government would celebrate its 'revolution' by manufacturing 'tanks and heavy equipment' (probably meaning armoured vehicles)...

The high drama (and useful diversion) acted out between President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and National Islamic Front-founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi is heating up again...

An amnesty law and a peace accord signed by Museveni and Sudan's President Omar el Beshir have not ended the fighting...

Determined to pursue their plan for southern Sudan Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Gadaffi and Sudan's President Omer el Beshir met for several hours...

Last December Museveni and Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed a peace agreement in Nairobi under the auspices of ex-United States President Jimmy Carter (and behind-the-scenes pressure from Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's envoy ex-President Ibrahim Babangida)...