Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

The military has centralised control over the myriad security and intelligence organisations set up under the rule of ousted President Omer el Beshir...

The ICC has had a warrant out for Omer el Beshir on three counts of genocide for nearly 10 years...

Sudan factorLast year's overthrow of Sudanese dictator Omer el Beshir has simplified negotiations with Kiir's former adversaries (AC Vol 60 No 8 The revolution rumbles on)...

It was also a message to rich Western countries offering rhetorical support to the pro-democracy movement that pushed out Omer el Beshir that without cash the new government in Khartoum will struggle to reform the economy...

It has taken four months since the overthrow of Omer el Beshir tortuous negotiations mass sit-ins and enduring murderous attacks by the security forces to get here...

Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have worked with both men as with ex-President Omer el Beshir in 2016 and the Sudanese troops in Yemen are now thought to number about 14 000...

Backed by money and guns from allies in the Gulf and Cairo the ruling generals in Khartoum had hoped by now to have consolidated a new regime complete with co-opted civilians four months after the overthrow of President Omer el Beshir...

After the overthrow of President Omer el Beshir on 11 April opposition armed groups and the junta declared a ceasefire while talks on a new dispensation continued...

After General Omer Hassan el Beshir seized power in July 1989 in a putsch covertly backed by the NIF he re-organised the security system and gradually replaced most of the secular senior officers with committed Islamists first in the intelligence and surveillance system creating tensions and rivalries as he did so...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Burhan served as a military intelligence officer in Darfur then became a military commander where he had a reputation for ruthlessness as the Khartoum regime's tactics attracted media attention and an arrest warrant for President Omer el Beshir from the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity...

Others say the schisms run far deeper and that the factionalised armed forces are one of deposed leader Omer el Beshir's most poisonous legacies...

With 60 people treated for gunshot wounds in clinics around the capital it was the worst outbreak of violence since the ousting of President Omer el Beshir on 10 April...

Burhan is taciturn and stolid but thought to have kept his distance from the Islamist factions that had penetrated the army under the rule of President Omer el Beshir...