His relations with Khartoum were strengthened while he was in power and some in Juba claim that South African officials flew to Khartoum on President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s private jet...
This might include a more forceful approach to the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir which Britain and France promoted but have done little to back in practice...
The AU remains hostile to the ICC indictment of Omer el Beshir...
Déby’s room for manoeuvre was constantly eroded by rebellion backed by Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in retaliation for Deby’s assistance to the Darfur rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) whose rear bases were in Chad...
When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) ‘Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in Khartoum and take everything ’ he was acknowledging that the stakes could hardly be higher...
These include refusing to endorse the International Criminal Court’s indictment of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and other Sudanese officials and backing the AU position on Darfur peace talks...
On 13 March Arab media reported that Arab governments led by Saudi Arabia had asked President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to step aside...
In late January some 700 SAF officers warned Field Marshal Omer el Beshir and Defence Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (indicted on 1 March on 41 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity) that the armed forces were in no state to confront their South Sudanese counterpart the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and were losing against SRF forces in the Two Areas (South Kordofan and Blue Nile)...
President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir called it ‘naive’ and Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti ‘childish’...
Tunisia’s Ennahda and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have signalled they will deal with Sudan’s Islamist movement but not with President Omer el Beshir...
Massive pictures of the President Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the Defence Minister General Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (now also wanted by the International Criminal Court) stare down in uniform and unsmiling at the dusty streets...
Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit and Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed an agreement stipulating how much South Sudan would pay Sudan for transportation transit and processing fees...