When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) ‘Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in Khartoum and take everything ’ he was acknowledging that the stakes could hardly be higher...
These include refusing to endorse the International Criminal Court’s indictment of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and other Sudanese officials and backing the AU position on Darfur peace talks...
On 13 March Arab media reported that Arab governments led by Saudi Arabia had asked President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to step aside...
In late January some 700 SAF officers warned Field Marshal Omer el Beshir and Defence Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (indicted on 1 March on 41 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity) that the armed forces were in no state to confront their South Sudanese counterpart the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and were losing against SRF forces in the Two Areas (South Kordofan and Blue Nile)...
President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir called it ‘naive’ and Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti ‘childish’...
Tunisia’s Ennahda and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have signalled they will deal with Sudan’s Islamist movement but not with President Omer el Beshir...
Massive pictures of the President Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the Defence Minister General Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein (now also wanted by the International Criminal Court) stare down in uniform and unsmiling at the dusty streets...
Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit and Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed an agreement stipulating how much South Sudan would pay Sudan for transportation transit and processing fees...
Beyond that they had failed publicly to identify the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Khartoum as mainly responsible for blocking the completion of the ‘unfinished business’ of the CPA including oil and border details and treated Salva Kiir’s and President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s governments even-handedly...
Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has talked up the prospect of full-fledged armed conflict...
In early November Khartoum’s army and what President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir hailed as ‘mujahideen’ recaptured Kurmuk a Blue Nile former slaving town on the Ethiopian border long held by the SPLA...
