Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

As demonstrators across the country win growing support in their call for his exit President Omer el Beshir's choices are diminishing quickly and regional developments are moving against him (AC Vol 60 No 4 Pushing Beshir towards the exit)...

After over two months of demonstrations across the country and over 50 civilians killed by security forces the resilience of the opposition is persuading some foreign governments to reassess their policy towards embattled President Omer Hassan el Beshir...

Campaigners politicians and plotters have started the year with a flurry of activity: protests about electoral shenanigans in Congo-Kinshasa; demonstrations demanding the exit of Sudan's President Omer Hassan el Beshir; the governing Jubilee party in Kenya has started to splinter after top officials quit in protest at Vice-President William Ruto's plans to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta; and security forces killed two soldiers and arrested seven more after a failed putsch in Gabon...

It could also improve a reputation tarnished by its genocidal counter-insurgency campaign in Darfur which led it to jump-start peace efforts although it is now facing its own troubles as spreading unrest threatens President Omer el Beshir's control...

Three weeks of opposition demonstrations across the country have left President Omer Hassan el Beshir much weakened and vulnerable to machinations in the National Congress Party regime and threats by his rivals in the military...

Initially about the price of bread and fuel the protests have escalated into widespread calls for President Omer Hassan el Beshir to step down...

Khartoum is hesitating we hear because a Russian presence in the region would anger France the United States which is considering lifting Sudan's designation as a sponsor of terrorism and Saudi Arabia on whose good will President Omer Hassan el Beshir also depends...

The Khartoum round was driven by Sudanese President Omer el Beshir and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni who are the international players with most to gain from peace...

It also allowed Sudan's President Omer Hassan el Beshir to present himself as a regional peacemaker...

Yet he is experiencing increasing isolation something his current host President Omer Hassan el Beshir of Sudan has become a past master at overcoming...