Vol 52 No 11 | 
            - DJIBOUTI
 - SUDAN
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     He welcomed President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to Djibouti on 8 May for the inauguration ceremony for his third presidential term...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     This begs the question of whether President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had sided with Gosh or Nafi’e on the issue...
 Ghazi and Gosh were in the first group  he said  with Omer el Beshir  Ibrahim Ghandour and Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti in the second...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Acting for the government  British lawyers Sir Geoffrey Nice and Rodney Dixon (both veterans of unsuccessful attempts to save Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir from trial) pleaded in a 30-page submission that Kenya's new constitution and reform timetable empowered it to try the suspects...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     He is a Metropolitan Police advisor and a founder of the Sudan International Defence Group  which tried  with the NCP’s Ibrahim Ghandour  to block the International Criminal Court from trying President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (AC Vol 51 No 15)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Both tried in vain to get the ICC warrants lifted from Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (AC Vol 50 No 4)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The previous week  President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had again defied the International Criminal Court and visited Cairo  where he met new ruler Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The prospect of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir stepping down reflects the ruling National Congress Party’s dilemma over how to tackle growing domestic and regional calls for political change and four months of tough negotiation before Southern Sudan formally secedes...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Heavily praised by Western diplomats for not overtly sabotaging Southern Sudan’s independence referendum  President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had no qualms about detaining and beating up oppositionists  including several members of former Premier El Sadig el Mahdi’s family  in Khartoum...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 52 No 4 | 
            - NORTH AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	      However  Erdogan’s close friendships with Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Syria’s Bashar al Assad points to a limited enthusiasm for democrats and democracy...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 52 No 3 | 
            - AFRICAN UNION
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	    France and the United States are seriously considering the African Union (AU)'s requests to defer the International Criminal Court's prosecution of six Kenyan officials and Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir  senior African and Western officials have told Africa Confidential...