That is why the NIF carefully rebranded as the National Congress Party (NCP) confounded forecasters from Egypt to Eritrea to the late Colonel John Garang de Mabior who taunted Brigadier General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir as a 'junior rebel' (AC Vol 30 Nos 15 & 16)...
Despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is still there...
Vol 50 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Relations with Khartoum's National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) regime are more problematic: SA has ratified the International Criminal Court statutes and would be legally required to arrest Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir should he try to visit SA (he was conspicuously absent from Zuma's inauguration in May)...
Key members of the party include: Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir President; Islamist since his school days; paratrooper; fought Israel in 1973 and is still fighting; gained power since the months after the coup when he had none but is still not main decision-maker; wanted by International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur...
Asmara now has an unexpected adversary in an African Union which defends Issayas’s new ally Sudan’s President Omer el Beshir indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court...
They and others blessing the summit including the African Union Arab League and United Nations Mission in Darfur will not be happy that Khartoum has sabotaged it even though Sudanese President Omer el Beshir was invited...
The plan appears to be a new offensive at a time when the National Congress (NC aka National Islamic Front NIF) regime is focussing on the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...
Vol 50 No 8 |
- UGANDA
- ANALYSIS
As soon as the operation had ended there were reports that the LRA was receiving new supplies suggesting that Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime is still supporting the LRA...
The recent strikes the first on 12 or 13 January put even greater pressure on a regime faced with the International Criminal Court's 4 March arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (AC Vol 50 No 6 New battles for Darfur and Khartoum fights back)...
He told Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit that Omer el Beshir should cooperate with the ICC...
The political crisis in Khartoum after the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has fostered new hopes among the opposition not least in Darfur...
When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon telephoned Field Marshal Omer el Beshir we understand the President told him he would 'wipe out' Muhajeriya and the UN would be responsible...
CORRECTION: In AC Vol 50 No 5 we unintentionally misquoted the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir as accusing him of 'internationally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur'...
President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir made a long and inflammatory speech at a 16 March ceremony in Khartoum's Green Square...
