The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
In his whitewashed palace beside the Nile, President Omar al-Bashir has ruled Sudan with consummate guile and ruthlessness for almost two decades.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Source: Reuters By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM, July 14 (Reuters) - Sudanese opposition parties warned on Monday that an international arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir would destabilise Africa's ...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... held in 1986, the leader of the SPLA, John Garang, refused to recognise the new government.Omar al-Bashir and the National Islamic Front, led by Hassan al-Turabi, took control of Sudan in a coup in 1989. They formed the Popular Defence Forces (al Difaa al Shaabi) to take over from the army, using religious propaganda to recruit.Millions of people were killed or displaced and the economic...
