Since April, this year, Burhari presided over periods of repression, particularly June and July, as the elite attempted to hang onto power after removing Bashir.. The international powers, along with African Union, intervened out of fear that Sudanese revolution would reignite struggles..…
PressTV-ICC and Omar al-Bashir’s case . . Africa Today asks whether the AU will establish a trustworthy African criminal court so that Africa can hold leaders who commit crimes accountable. . ..…
Relations between the military council that took over from Bashir and protest groups broke down when security forces killed dozens of people holding a sit-in on June 3. But African mediators brokered a return to direct talks following huge protests against the military on Sunday. . ..…
KHARTOUM Sudan's ruling military council warned protest leaders Saturday that they would be held responsible for any destruction or damage by vandals and people with ahead of planned mass rallies demanding civilian rule more than two months after the military ousted President Omar al-Bashir.. The..…
The pro-government newspaper Sabah reported that 'Erdoğan's Sudan visit was... part of a larger political and economic drive to increase Turkey's ties with the [African] continent.' . During the same visit, Bashir granted Erdoğan the use, near Egypt and Saudi Arabia, of Suakin Island, a..…
The North African Country of Sudan is in crisis. After the forced and successful removal of president Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled with an iron fist for three decades, the country broke out in celebration. ..…
Yasir Arman, the prominent of the men and the deputy head of SPLM-N, was detained last Wednesday after returning from exile following the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir April.. Also on Monday, Deputy U.N Eri Kaneko told reporters New York that the military council had decreed to..…
The moves take place killing dozens of people in the violence since President Omar al- Bashir was removed by April after four months of generally peaceful protests.. African Union's Peace and Security Council, in Addis Ababa on Thursday, decided to suspend Sudan from all AU activities..…
Bashir Maman Ifo Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and others looked on during audience President granted delegation of Pan African Bank at State House, Abuja. ..…
Amnesty International said in April 2019 that all parties to Rome Statute that set up ICC are obliged under the law to arrest al-Bashir if he sets foot in their country. South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Chad, Malawi, the Central African Republic, Egypt, and Jordan are among the countries..…
The government of South Africa also declined to arrest him at the behest of ICC and human rights organization, Southern Africa Litigation Centre, filed emergency in South African court to force al-Bashir's arrest. ..…
Sudan could be drawn back into a regional tug-of-war that Al Bashir proved ultimately unable to balance. . The African continent has also provided mixed messages. The African Union's Peace and Security Council strongly condemned the coup and initially gave the military council a fortnight to..…
FILE - In this May 19, 2004 file photo, Arab and African horsemen from Sudan's Shairia locality parade before then Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, as a show of solidarity in Nyala, capital of the country's southern Darfur state. al-Bashir, driven from power and now languishing in a prison..…
Al- Bashir's government mobilized Arab militias known as Janjaweed, massacring civilians and carrying out mass rapes among three African groups, Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa. ... Mohammed al-Asam, member of Sudanese Professionals Association, said that then no one would object to the trial..…
Following the ouster of former Omar al-Bashir April, Sudan has been rocked by political turmoil.. Amnesty warned against the proposed plan to withdraw United Nations African Union Mission Darfur peacekeepers from the region by June 2020, stating that this would effectively give control..…
Sudanese Professionals Association, leading the revolt, has called for sweeping change to end violent crackdowns on dissent, purge corruption and cronyism and ease economic crisis that worsened during Bashir's last years in power.. ..…
Photo: President Kagame with Moussa Faki, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, during the closing ceremony of the 31st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union yesterday. . . analysis By S. Ahmed Today feels decisive as the Sudanese people..…
He is a frequent commentator on African issues for U.S. and international media organizations. . . . ... After Bashir’s Ouster, the Hard Work of Sudan’s Revolution Has Only Begun . ..…
THE resignation of Sudan, Omar al- Bashir, brings to end one of the longest and most controversial reigns in African continent. ..…
Sudan's new head of the transitional military council has affirmed that government would be established in African country, stressing that all traces of ousted President Omar al- Bashir's government will be uprooted... ..…
Following the coup, Bashir's with Islamist Hassan al- Turabi saw austere brand of Islamism imposed on ancient land at the crossroads of African trade routes, bringing with them heterogeneity that was integral part of Sudanese identity.. ... By international sanctions and the loss of oil..…
But he denies international accusations that he has backed Arab Janjaweed militias accused of war crimes against the region's black African communities. . For years, Mr Bashir resisted the deployment of UN peacekeepers to Darfur and any criticism from the West tends to make him and his..…
Human-rights groups have urged Sudanese authorities to turn Bashir and three others officials over to the Hague-based court to face justice. . Demonstrations in the Horn of African country began in December 2018 and intensified on April 6, as the Sudanese people continued to demand political..…
Al-Bashir's fall came just over a week after similar protests in Algeria forced the resignation of that North African nation's long-ruling, military-backed president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. ..…
Our new dictionary of African politics reveals the witty and insightful terminology that people in different African countries use to speak truth to power and discuss everyday developments.. These range from Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to former South African Jacob Zuma,..…
Less noticed but no less important than the reported arrival of Russian mercenaries in Venezuela (see EDM, January 28, 31) has been the influx of Russia Wagner Group “private military contractors” (PMC) in Khartoum to help local security forces shore up the embattled regime of Sudanese President Omar..…
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who hosted the talks in Khartoum sponsored by the African Union and the United Nations that culminated in the agreement, was also present at the ceremony. ..…
Monday's demonstrations came after campaigners called for new rallies this week against the government of President Omar al-Bashir. . Deadly protests have rocked the east African country since December after cash-strapped Khartoum cut a vital subsidy on bread. . ..…
Sudanese police forces have fired teargas canisters at hundreds of protesters in Khartoum as anti-government demonstrators mounting pressure on President Omar al- Bashir to step down over price hikes and shortages in African nation.. ..…
The South African government’s move comes after it hosted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at the African Union Summit in South Africa in June 2015. ... South African courts confirmed the government had a duty to arrest al-Bashir. . ..…
Kenyatta and Ruto continue to make show of cooperating with the order to avoid the issuance of arrest warrants and the pariah status now faced by Sudan's Bashir. It remains to be seen what happens in Kenya cases, and perhaps the battle for ICC will be African countries, particularly if..…
He is welcomed in African capitals and has continued to bomb and strafe the new state of South Sudan and the tribes on the border. . Bashir’s continuing defiance forces any observer to be skeptical of the claim by the Court’s current president that international justice serves a useful..…
And African Union continues to undermine ICC, shielding Bashir and other officials in the process, without offering any serious alternative for combating impunity and realizing justice on the continent. ..…
On July 12, Trump administration chose to continue easing sanctions on Sudan for three more months to review the performance — unsurprising move given Washington and short staffing in State Department for African issues.. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was first quick to renounce the..…
What happened when al-Bashir visited South Africa in June to attend an African Union summit? ... The South African government has sought the opportunity to appeal South Africa’s High Court ruling that South Africa was obligated to arrest al-Bashir. ..…
Sudanese genocide was given theological and political force by the attitude that Arabs and Muslims had the natural right to superior position over African Animists and Christians. And Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Butcher of Sudan, continues to enjoy the support of Muslim world despite being..…
This represented in reinforcing the obligations of African ICC states parties to enforce the court's arrest warrants and Malawi's to the ICC, notwithstanding African Union decisions calling on African states parties not to in the arrest and surrender of al-Bashir. . ... The..…
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