Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

When a Nuba enquired why President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had told a pre-election rally in South Kordofan that the NCP would win either ‘by the ballot box or the bullet box’ a visibly uneasy Sudanese Ambassador Abdullahi Hamed Ali el Azrag first denied that Field Marshal Omer had uttered the threat but then under audience pressure insisted it was a response to SPLM threats...

It also blocked moves against the Burmese regime in 2007 softened criticism of Iran’s nuclear programme and criticised the ICC’s warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued for Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

Then instead of presenting the lowered Sudanese flag to Northern President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir as protocol dictated Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit held it back for the Southern heritage museum...

CORRECTION: In AC Vol 52 No 13 we unintentionally demoted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to Lieutenant General...

One key question during the evening concerned speculation about a split between Nafi’e and President Omer el Beshir...

After launching another war against his opponents and threatening to cut off South Sudan’s oil President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir will meet top officials in China next week in his first trip outside Africa and the Middle East as an indicted war criminal...

After Northern troops had burned down most of Abyei town and driven out over 20 000 people President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir insisted on 24 May that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) would not leave in blatant contravention of 2005’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)...

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...