[fn]Some diplomats report that Hemedti paid the police in cash to get them back on the streets after Bashir’s ouster. Crisis Group interview, European diplomat, Nairobi, June 2019; “From camel herder to dictator”, Foreign Policy, 2 July 2019.Hide Footnote Thirdly, he has curried..…
Although Turkey is a member of NATO with long-standing aspirations to become part of the European Union -- while Bashir came to power in 1989 by overthrowing Sudan's democratically elected government and was later indicted by the International Criminal Court as a war criminal -- Erdoğan and..…
., they expanded the classification “Westerners” to include Europe, due to increased European involvement in Africa. . In 2011, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited and embraced former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. ..…
Behind the scenes they should work to persuade Bashir to stand down or pledge not to contest elections in 2020; European governments on the UN Security Council might encourage the council to defer Bashir’s International Criminal Court indictment were he to leave power. In..…
The likelihood of both those things happening is extremely slim given that even though he is the subject of European Union and United States sanctions, to date no country has levelled charges against al-Bashir. . ..…
Sudanese Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf appointed on Friday Army Chief of Staff Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan media reported. .. ..…
The international human rights movement, which managed to get Bashir indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court, was not able this time to mobilize much support. The European countries that led the campaign for Bashir’s indictment are no longer very interested in..…
The head of Sudan's military council's, Lieutenant General Omar Zain al- Abdin... ..…
Thousands of people, who had packed the streets of Khartoum to celebrate Bashir's removal returned to the streets this time to demand civilian government.. Later in the day, European Union Federica Mogherini called on the army to hand over power to civilian government... ..…
Since its 1971 show trial of German mercenary Rolf Steiner, Sudan has maintained strong opposition to the presence of European mercenaries in Africa. While al-Bashir appears to have reversed Sudan’s position, it seems unlikely that the regime would squander what is left of its political..…
Behind the scenes they should work to persuade Bashir to stand down or pledge not to contest elections in 2020; European governments on the UN Security Council might encourage the council to defer Bashir’s International Criminal Court indictment were he to leave power. In..…
The European Union, for its part, has limited its dealings with the Bashir regime to a narrow agenda of stemming migration and advancing counter-terrorism collaboration. ..…
In 2005, after over two decades of civil war between the government of Sudan and rebel militants in the south, the Bush administration together with its European partners successfully negotiated a peace agreement between the principals of the conflict, the Al-Bashir government in Khartoum..…
To this end she referred to the migration partnerships with the European Union (EU). Under these agreements, despots like the Egyptian dictator al-Sisi, Sudan’s Omar el-Bashir and even Desalegn himself will receive €1.8 billion from the EU to detain refugees in Africa and keep them away..…
This continues Assembly's evolution toward ensuring its sessions focus real attention on the substantive issues raised in ICC's work and provides opportunity to continue discussions initiated during the stocktaking exercise at Kampala review conference of the impact of Rome Statute system on victims and..…