Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir

The first test for the International Criminal Court's 12 July arrest warrant for genocide against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is his visit to Ndjamena this week...

In February 2009 the SIDG and the Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation used Sir Geoffrey Nice QC to try to block the ICC cases against Omer el Beshir unsuccessfully (AC Vol 50 No 4)...

President Omer el Beshir's recent belligerent statements on Halaib enclave contested with Egypt suggest Khartoum has been told about the secret talks...

The 35 cabinet ministers and 42 state (junior) ministers which President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir announced on 14 June are overwhelmingly NCP...

Diverse Sudanese stress that while the military-security group around President Omer el Beshir has strengthened its hand that does not mean that the party is no longer Islamist nor that the apparent sidelining of the ‘civilians’ (often militarily trained) is permanent or even real...

Khartoum has the means to delay the Abyei vote (and thereby disrupt the Southern referendum) since the District is governed by the Presidency – President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha – an inbuilt NCP majority...

The ICC is now considering reissuing genocide charges against Field Marshal Omer el Beshir who faces an international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes...

A beaming President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir waved his stick triumphantly as his victory was announced in Khartoum on 26 April...

South Africa had sent a delegation to talk to Sudanese security said SA sources and President Jacob Zuma spoke to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on the telephone...

For Khartoum internationally accepted elections would counter the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...

Omer el Beshir may have threatened to cut off the fingers heads and tongues of foreign election monitors but the party calculated that in the name of the CPA it could get away with such threats and indeed with the aerial bombardment of Jebel Marra and Jebel Moon in Darfur that same week...

A furious President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had threatened on 29 March that if the SPLM were to boycott the polls he would delay January's Southern independence referendum the most important issue in Southern political life...

After complaining last year about the electoral procedures it confronted Omer el Beshir directly: 'The Carter Center expresses concern regarding restrictions on citizens' freedom of assembly and freedom of speech under certain provisions in the National Security Forces Act Press and Publications Act and the criminal justice legislation that are incompatible with Sudan's CPA and the Interim National Constitution (INC)...

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's campaign manager in the South is his Security Advisor and former NISS Director General Salah Abdullah Mohamed 'Gosh'...