Tag: Bashir

Sudanese authorities have taken control of lucrative assets that for years provided backing for Hamas, shedding light on how the country served as a...

Sudanese authorities said they had foiled an attempted coup on Tuesday, accusing loyalists of ousted president Omar al-Bashir of trying to reverse the revolution...

Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and other suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and genocide in Darfur must face...

Ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir appeared in court on Tuesday at the start of a trial over the military coup in which he took...

Sudan has found a mass grave that most likely contains remains of 28 army officers executed in 1990 for plotting an attempted coup against...

Sudan’s ruling council will step up the drive to remove former president Omar al-Bashir loyalists, a day after the prime minister of the transitional...

Sudan could send former leader Omar al-Bashir and other suspects to The Hague for trial before the International Criminal Court, but any decision would...

The head of Sudan’s ruling council pledged full co-operation with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has an outstanding arrest warrant for ousted president...

Sudan’s government and rebel groups in Darfur agreed all wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) should appear before the tribunal, a list including...

Sudan seized the assets of ousted President Omar al-Bashir’s now dissolved party, a senior member of the country’s ruling sovereign council said. The National...

Sudan’s ousted long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was summoned for questioning on Tuesday over his role in the 1989 coup that brought him to power....

A Sudanese judge formally indicted Omar al-Bashir for possessing illicit foreign currency and corruption, charges the ousted leader challenged when publicly questioned for the...

Ousted Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir acknowledged receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a police detective told a court at the start of...

Ex-Sudan president Omar al-Bashir was charged with corruption-related offences on Sunday, when appeared in public for the first time since being overthrown and detained...

Sudan charged ousted president Omar al-Bashir and others with incitement and involvement in the killing of protesters, the public prosecutor said. Earlier this month, the...

Sudan’s public prosecutor ordered ousted President Omar al-Bashir to be interrogated on charges of money laundering and financing terrorism, as thousands of protesters joined...

Uganda will consider offering asylum to ousted Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir despite his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a foreign affairs minister...

Deposed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was moved to Khartoum’s grim high-security Kobar prison from the presidential residence, family sources said, as military rulers announced...

Sudanese President Omar Hassan Bashir, who weathered multiple armed rebellions, economic crises and attempts by the West to make him a pariah, was forced...

President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan in autocratic style for 30 years, was overthrown in a military coup on Thursday, but protesters’ jubilation was...

Protesters chanting anti-government slogans took to the streets of neighbourhoods in the Sudanese capital, eyewitnesses said, while President Omar al-Bashir said he would seek...

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir on International Women’s Day ordered the release of all women arrested in connection with anti-government demonstrations, hours after protesters marched...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir reshuffled senior military staff a day after announcing sweeping new security powers to contend with anti-government protests, the most sustained...

Sudanese security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters as opponents of President Omar al-Bashir defied a state of emergency declared on Friday and...

As Samir Gasim reels off the problems facing his Khartoum confectionery and packaging factories, already running well below capacity, power cuts and generators kick...

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, apparently searching for regional friends amid weeks of protests against his 30-year rule, announced on Thursday he was reopening the...

Weeks of protests pose one of the most serious challenges to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's 30-year rule as his party prepares to change the...

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir reiterated he would not step down after weeks of violent protests and calls for him to quit over a worsening...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, facing the most persistent protests since seizing power in 1989, dismissed calls to step down as security forces fired tear...

Short of time to save his sinking economy, Sudan President Omar al-Bashir boarded a Russian jet on December 17 and became the first Arab...

Sudan's long-serving President Omar Bashir came closer to another term in office after a majority of lawmakers backed a constitutional amendment to...

A UN watchdog told Sudan to prosecute security forces for attacks in Darfur between 2014 and 2016 and co-operate with the International...

Sudan's ruling party backs its leader President Omar al-Bashir as a candidate in the 2020 election, state news agency SUNA reported, a...

Sudan extended until year-end a three-year-old unilateral ceasefire with rebels fighting in three parts of the country, the presidential palace said, as...

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir has ordered the release of all political prisoners in the country, state news agency SUNA said. The decision came...

Sudan closed its border with Eritrea a week after President Omar al-Bashir announced a six month state of emergency in Kassala and...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visited war-torn Darfur in an effort to show his country is ready to have 20-year-old sanctions lifted just...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir pardoned and released a prominent human rights activist jailed since last year on spying and other charges, his...

The International Criminal Court yesterday rebuked South Africa for not arresting Sudan's president on a genocide warrant when he visited Johannesburg in...

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will travel to Russia next month, Khartoum authorities said, a rare overseas trip for a leader wanted...

Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of October a decree by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said, two...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rejected his Sudanese counterpart's accusation that Cairo backs rebels aiming to topple the Khartoum government, saying Egypt...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused Egypt of supporting rebels at war with Khartoum, a week ahead of a visit to Cairo by...

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir will travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday but there is no confirmation he will meet with US President...

Sudan is ready to sign a peace agreement with a major rebel group in the longstanding Darfur conflict, a government official said...

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has announced a one-month extension of his unilateral ceasefire in fighting with rebels in the country's war...

International Criminal Court judges on Thursday asked South Africa to send representatives to a hearing next year to determine whether it had...

Sudan's government has carried out at least 30 likely chemical weapons attacks in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur since January using...

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir replaced the head of his joint chiefs of staff on Tuesday with a loyal general who has...

The International Criminal Court faced calls to change its approach in Africa or face losing some of its largest members as Kenya...