Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

A furious President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had threatened on 29 March that if the SPLM were to boycott the polls he would delay January's Southern independence referendum the most important issue in Southern political life...

After complaining last year about the electoral procedures it confronted Omer el Beshir directly: 'The Carter Center expresses concern regarding restrictions on citizens' freedom of assembly and freedom of speech under certain provisions in the National Security Forces Act Press and Publications Act and the criminal justice legislation that are incompatible with Sudan's CPA and the Interim National Constitution (INC)...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's campaign manager in the South is his Security Advisor and former NISS Director General Salah Abdullah Mohamed 'Gosh'...

Three activists linked to Redress were in 2008 detained and tortured after publicly supporting the ICC which last year issued an arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

The NCP rallied the AU Arab League Organisation of Islamic Conference and Non-Aligned Movement by claiming the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir threatened peace in both the South and Darfur...

During Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno’s visit to Khartoum Field Marshal Omer el Beshir announced on 10 February that relations with Ndjamena had been ‘normalised’ and that war had ended...

Before International Criminal Court appeals judges ruled on 3 February that the Pre-Trial Chamber must review previously dismissed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir the summit backed a South African move to give the UN General Assembly the means to defer cases at the ICC by a year...

There are two presidential elections: firstly for the presidency of all Sudan the NCP’s Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir will face the SPLM’s Yasir Saeed Arman and eight other candidates including El Sadig Sadeeg el Mahdi the elected Premier the NIF overthrew in 1989...

Foreign Minister Muhammad Mumuni’s consorting with Sudanese officials after the international indictment of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and welcoming of Israel’s abrasive Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman looks confused...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir will ‘most definitely’ give the necessary presidential assent to the NISS bill and ‘the SPLM is very concerned about free and fair elections’ the GOSS Minister in the Office of the President Luka Biong Deng told AC this week...

The International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir continues to cast clouds over China's Africa policy...

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki invited Omer el Beshir to Nairobi for the 27 August grand ceremony to celebrate the signing of Kenya's new constitution in late August...

When asked about the 12 July reinstatement by the International Criminal Court of genocide charges against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang did not mention the ICC warrant but said that 'positive progress is being made in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Darfur issue is improving...