Map of Sudan Facts & Figures National name:Jamhuryat as-Sudan President:Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (1989) Current government officials Total area:1,156,673 sq mi (1,861,484 sq km);land area:668,601 sq mi(1,731,671 sq km);water area:50,121 sq mi(129,813 sq km) ...
Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese military leader who led a revolt that overthrew the elected government of Sudan in 1989. He served as president from 1993 until he was overthrown in 2019. In 2009 the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him,
Omar al-Bashir Blaise Compaoré Related Topics: civil war military dictatorship See all related content coup d’état, the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. The chiefprerequisitefor a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces, the police, and other...
In early 2003 rebel groups took up arms against theKhartoum-based regime of Sudanese PresidentOmar al-Bashir, igniting long-standing tensions in theDarfurregion of westernSudan. That conflict erupted into what the U.S. government later described as the firstgenocideof the 21st century. After rebe...
Sudan’smilitary ended the 30-year rule of Pres.Omar al-Bashirafter months of protests.IraqandLebanon,democracieswhose polarized factions rendered the governments incapable of addressing major crises, also faced massive demonstrations of their own in 2019–20. Although these individual protest movements...
March 29-30, 2009 -A two-day summit takes place in Doha, Qatar.Sudanese President Omar al Bashirattends, despite an arrest warrant issued by theInternational Criminal Court. February 22, 2011 -The Arab League releases a statement saying it is suspending Libya's participation in Arab League me...
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir—the first time the court sought the arrest of a sitting head of state. In November 2019 the ICC began an investigation into crimes within its jurisdiction allegedly committed by the armed forces of Myanmar (Burma) against the Rohingya, a Muslim community concentrated...
In May 2007 the court issued arrest warrants for a government minister and a militia leader in Sudan for their roles in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Sudanese forces inDarfur. The ICC issued a similar warrant in March 2009 for Sudanese Pres.Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir—...
In 2009 the ICC issued an arrest warrant forOmar al-Bashir, president of Sudan, on charges ofwarcrimes and crimes against humanity in theDarfurregion of western Sudan. A second arrest warrant for Bashir, charging him with genocide, was issued in 2010. In 2019 The Gambia filed a lawsuit in...