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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir [a] (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. [2]
Omar Bashir was born in Budapest in 1970. His father, Munir Bashir, had settled in the city and married a Hungarian woman. [6] He began playing the oud with his father at the age of five after he moved to Baghdad, [7] and performed his first 15 minute solo when he was 9 years old. He later attended the Baghdad Music and Ballet School where he ...
Omar Shaqrouq (Arabic: عمر شقروق) is a Syrian politician and engineer currently serving as the minister of electricity in the Syrian transitional government that was formed after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
He was deposed in a 1989 military coup led by Lieutenant-General Omar al-Bashir. Al-Bashir served as head of state, under the title of Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation from 1989 to 1993 and as president from 1993 to 2019 (and from 1996 as the leader of the National Congress Party).
Omar al-Bashir and al-Turabi regime solidified its power using authoritarian tools, establishing a political security apparatus called "Internal Security," led by Colonel Bakri Hassan Saleh. This body was known for its notorious detention facilities, "ghost houses," where intellectuals were detained and tortured. Public freedoms were eroded ...
A series of political agreements among Sudanese political and military forces for a democratic transition in Sudan began in July 2019. Omar al-Bashir overthrew the democratically elected government of Sadiq al-Mahdi in 1989 [1] and was himself overthrown in the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état, in which he was replaced by the Transitional Military Council (TMC) after months of sustained street ...
NCP logo used in the 2010 Sudanese elections, dropped after South Sudan gained independence in 2011.. With Omar al-Bashir becoming President of Sudan, the National Congress Party was established as the only legally recognised political party in the nation in 1998, with the very same ideology as its predecessors National Islamic Front (NIF) and the Revolutionary Command Council for National ...
[1] [2] Only Omar al-Bashir’s National Congress Party and a small number of minority parties contested the elections. [2] About 66% of Sudan’s eligible voters cast ballots. [2] Al-Bashir received 86.5% of the votes cast for a five-year presidential term. [2]