Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

‘Serious efforts are being undertaken towards resuming talks in the two regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile states’ President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told Parliament on 1 April to some surprise...

The core problem here is Omer el Beshir’s departure announced for 2015: both national and NCP constitutions say he cannot stand for a third term...

The coalition of army and security bodies controls the levers of power with President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir at the top beside the Defence Minister General Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (wanted like Field Marshal Omer by the International Criminal Court) and Gen...

Omer el Beshir is unpopular in the Islamist movement and needs the blessing of one faction or the other to rule...

Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir accepted an invitation to Juba; his press office said that he and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit had agreed to proceed with ‘sincerity honesty and seriousness’...

The ICC’s supporters worry that if those who refuse to comply with the Court such as Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir are treated in the same way as those who do there is no incentive to comply...

That made him a ‘Senior Assistant’ to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir but he rejoined the opposition in 2010 and joined the SRF when it was founded in 2011...

On 2 February Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and his leading defence and intelligence officials flew to Asmara for a one-day ‘working visit’...

Asked to join them were Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit who are yet to reach agreement on two outstanding issues: the referendum in Abyei and the status of other disputed and claimed border areas...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had claimed he would defeat the Northern insurgency within three days but 18 months later the rebels begin the new year controlling three times the area that they possessed in the last war an SRF official told Africa Confidential...

Only one other head of state stood on the podium beside President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on 1 January...

The 5 January meeting in Addis Ababa between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir achieved little against the backdrop of claims that Khartoum had again been bombing the South...