Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

The National Islamic Front is trying harder than ever to woo foreigners and the opposition following the noisy quarrel between the NIF founder and leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi and the general he promoted to president Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (AC Vol 41 No 1)...

Although renamed 'National Congress' last year the NIF or 'Jebha' (Front) is still widely known by its old title; it convinced many governments and commentators that Omer el Beshir (rather than the NIF inner circle) had overthrown Turabi ended Islamist domination and installed a regime of pragmatic soldiers ready to welcome home the opposition and rejoin the international community...

Lieutenant General Omer Hassan el Beshir has for the first time named a 'presidential assistant' plus four presidential advisors 25 ministers 19 state (junior) ministers and 25 governors for what are now called states'...

The tensions between President Omer Hassan el Beshir's group and NIF-founder Hassan el Turabi which surfaced last month did not amount to a coup: Lieutenant General Omer is backed by core NIF hawks led by Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha...

Since 'Homeland' Omer el Beshir has repeatedly insisted on greater 'Islamisation'...

In their first joint mission Egypt's and Libya's foreign ministers Amr Moussa and Omer el Muntasser were in Sudan on 4 January to boost President Omer el Beshir against Hassan el Turabi...

In another negotiating gambit from Khartoum Lieutenant General Omer el Beshir asked South African President Thabo Mbeki to broker a meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Durban on 12-15 November...

Though the pact was made in Djibouti by President Omer el Beshir and El Sadig el Mahdi neither signed it...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on 30 August celebrated the arrival of oil at the Red Sea via the new pipeline by accusing the opposition of `drinking beer...

This was two days after President Omer el Beshir had told the South Kordofan Advisory Council he would never allow relief to reach the Nuba - and though a four-day ceasefire had been called for the visit the UN team was greeted by government artillery fire...

He said that Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had agreed with Bouteflika about restoring full diplomatic relations and had 'made progress' at a meeting with Egypt's President Mubarak (although Cairo still blames the NIF regime for the assassination attempt on Mubarak in Addis Ababa in July 1995 AC Vol 36 No 14)...

Stories are spreading again of splits in the NIF especially between Hassan el Turabi and General Omer el Beshir...

On 31 May Turabi and Lieutenant General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir ceremonially inaugurated the 1 600-kilometre pipeline from Heglig to the coast...