Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir [a] (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. [2]
A coup d'état was carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces on 30 June 1989 against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. The coup was led by military officer Omar al-Bashir who took power in its aftermath; he ruled the country for the next 30 years until he was overthrown in 2019.
General Omar Zain al-Abideen, who at the time also served as head of the Transitional Military Council's political committee, [48] said that the military government would not extradite al-Bashir to The Hague to face charges in the International Criminal Court (ICC), where al-Bashir is the subject of an arrest warrant on counts of crimes against ...
The RSF-led constitution is designed to supplant a constitution signed after the army and RSF ousted long-ruling autocrat Omar al-Bashir during an uprising in 2019.
The factions, uneasy partners in the toppling of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 2019 and the overthrow of a civilian-led government in 2021, clashed as they competed to protect their interests ...
For a moment in 2019, it seemed like a new era was dawning. A popular civilian resistance overthrew former Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir. But instead of a new civilian government, two rival ...
The Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation (RCCNS-Sudan) was the governing body of Sudan following the June 1989 coup. [1] It grew out of the collaboration between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the National Islamic Front. [2] It was the authority by which the military government of Sudan under Lt. Gen. Omar al-Bashir exercised power.
Omar al-Bashir and al-Turabi regime solidified its power using authoritarian tools, establishing a political security apparatus called "Internal Security," led by Colonel Bakri Hassan Saleh. This body was known for its notorious detention facilities, "ghost houses," where intellectuals were detained and tortured. Public freedoms were eroded ...