In a 12 August Pretoria press conference with President Omer el Beshir Mandela said: 'A solution is needed...
Engagement means welcoming NIF moves such as April's 'Peace Agreement' with Southern factions (not the SPLA or other NDA parties) and acceptance this month of the Declaration of Principles of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development at talks in Kenya (this would lead to a democratic secular state which the NIF consistently rejects: Lieutenant General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir later said the Principles were 'not binding')...
He gave the House a letter from President Omer el Beshir inviting 'the FBI's Counter-terrorism units and any other official delegations' to 'work with our External Intelligence Department in order to assess the data in our possession and help us counter the forces your government and ours seek to contain'...
The government response is unconvincing: the titular Head of State Lieutenant General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir first told the Sudanese that he would countenance negotiations with the opposition 'only through the barrel of a gun'; then in the wake of massive government losses he invited exiled Umma Party chief El Sadig el Sadeeg el Mahdi back to Khartoum to negotiate...
Khartoum was tense as the government called reluctant residents to defend 'the faith and the homeland' as a furious President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir repeatedly put it...
President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir recently declared that the 'New Sudan' (Garang's term and now the NDA's) would 'not be built by the rebellion… by stooges...
Omer el Beshir to make his peace with the army...
Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and Hassan Abdullah el Turabi...
Vol 37 No 15 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
In June 1995 Chissano made an official visit to Khartoum where he met President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the regime's real leader Hassan Abdullah el Turabi now head of the National Assembly...
It has also polished its African image: on 1 February Presidents Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir Idriss Déby (Chad) and Ange-Félix Patassé (Central African Republic) agreed to form a 'Triangle' for 'security and integrated development' and to strengthen the military on their borders...
Omer el Beshir...