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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir looks on during a meeting with former South African President and head of African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) Thabo Mbeki (unseen) in Khartoum on September 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ashraf Shazly)

Opinion: When will we see the back of Bashir?

by Osman Mirghani | Mar 14, 2015 | Opinion

I do not know why the Sudanese regime has taken the trouble to hold sham elections that pretty much everyone sees through and whose outcome is already known. If President Omar Al-Bashir simply extends his term in office by another five years—that is, in addition to...

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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir addresses a crowd in North Khartoum, on June 8, 2013. (Reuters)

Debate: Sudan’s government has had many successes over the last 25 years

by Amin Hassan Omar | Jun 17, 2014 | Debate

From 1989 until today an Islamic movement known as the National Islamic Front (NIF) has ruled Sudan. There is no doubt that since the days of the Sennar Sultanate, there has been no genuinely national government in the history of Sudan that has been able to rule the...

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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir gestures as he gives an address at the opening of the eighth session of Parliament in Khartoum on October 28, 2013.(Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

Sudanese opposition tours European capitals in bid for support

by Mustafa Sirri | Nov 10, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an alliance of Sudanese opposition forces, called on the international community to put pressure on the Sudanese government to force it to respect human rights and restore democracy at the beginning of a...

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir addresses a new session of Parliament, on April 1, 2013, in the capital Khartoum.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)

Sudan ruling party rebels to form new party

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 27, 2013 | Middle East

Khartoum, Asharq Al-Awsat—Leading members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan have announced their decision to leave and form a new political party. The decision follows an announcement by the NCP’s leadership last week that it had suspended the...

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President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir addresses a crowd in North Khartoum, on June 8, 2013. (Reuters)

Sudan: Bashir threatens rioters with “the gun”

by Ahmed Younis | Oct 25, 2013 | Middle East

Khartoum, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir threatened to use “the gun” against all those who want to “destroy Sudan” in a speech on Thursday. Speaking during an address in North Kordofan, Bashir said: “To those who want peace and to serve the nation,...