Omar Al-Bashir

News Digest (Aug. 18, 2018): Omar al-Bashir’s nomination, Kleptocrats in DRC, Nabeel Rajab, Haitian Book Day…

This is our third Weekly News Digest of August, it is a selected compilation of recent stories we publish each Saturday during Summertime. Today: Bashir’s nomination for a third term; Doctors threaten to strike in Sudan; Rainy season in Sudan; The Sentry reports on kleptocrats in...

Omar al-Bashir invited by Vladimir Putin for FIFA World Cup final

Radio Dabanga posted an article about Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir who will travel to Moscow on Friday at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bashir will hold talks with Putin and also attend the final match of the FIFA World Cup soccer in Moscow. Mahmoud A....

All Sudan Demo: over 400 people calling out Prime Minister Theresa May in London

Last month we announced you the All Sudan Demo organized by Waging Peace on June 30, 2018 in London (read our news here). The organization wanted to mark 29 years since President Omar al-Bashir assumed office after a military coup. Many people rallied Waging Peace #SudanPoorGovernance...

Salva Kiir and Riek Machar strike peace deal in Khartoum

After almost five years of a deadly civil war, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar meet in Khartoum on June 25, 2018, and it seems the two leaders reached compromises on a number of outstanding issues. Times Live wrote about this...

All Sudan Demo organized by Waging Peace on June 30, 2018 in London

In June, 1989, Omar al-Bashir assumed office as President of Sudan after he led the military coup that ousted the democratically-elected government at the time. As we are getting closer to this sad anniversary, Waging Peace is organizing an All Sudan Demo on Saturday, 30th June 2018 to...

La collaboration de Paris et Bruxelles avec le Soudan pour identifier les dissidents

Ce n’est pas la première fois que nous abordons le sujet polémique de la collaration entre l’Europe et les autorités Soudanaises dans le cadre de la régulation des migrants. Vous pouvez lire notre édito du mois d’avril dernier : Sudan: From Darfur and chemical...

John Prendergast and Ian Schwab (Enough Project): ‘The Sudan Sanctions Must Stay’

A few months ago, we wrote an editorial about the bewildering (to say the least) lift of U.S sanctions on Sudan in: Sudan: From Darfur and chemical attacks to European partnership and U.S collaboration. In a recent article published on U.S. News & World Report website, John...

Sudan: No Justice for Protester Killings

In September 2013 we covered #SudanRevolts, a wave of anti-austerity protests triggered by the critical economic situation in Sudan, when the government lifted its fuel and cooking gas subsidies to bring its budget under control. More than 200 hundred people (protesters, civilians) were...

Omar al-Bashir: The ICC issued a warrant for his arrest seven years ago today

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for Omar al-Bashir’s arrest seven years ago today for his role in the Darfur genocide. The first warrant for arrest was issued on 4 March 2009, the second on 12 July 2010. He is suspected of five counts of crimes against humanity,...

Abyei Referendum: Sudan wants is oil, South Sudan wants its people, by Max Dana

The Abyei status referendum is a delayed referendum that was originally due to be held in 2011 in which the residents of Abyei can decide either to remain part of the Sudanese South Kordofan region or to become part of the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. This is what you can learn...