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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 (Arabic: عمر بشير) is an Iraqi-Hungarian musician of Assyrian descent. He is the son of Munir Bashir , who is widely considered to be one of the most important virtuosos in the history of the oud and a master of the modal tradition of Arabic maqam , as well as the nephew of expert oud player Jamil Bashir .
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).
According to Ethiopian officials, the state funeral was attended by hundreds of political and public figures from around the world, most of them African leaders, including South African President Jacob Zuma and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Among regional leaders, President Jacob Zuma praised Meles and said Ethiopia lost "a patriot and a ...
Omar al-Bashir (right), President of Sudan, watches a ceremony celebrating the founding of South Sudan with Kiir in 2011. Kiir voting in the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum. South Sudanese voted overwhelmingly in favor of their independence from Sudan in January 2011, with 98.83% of voters reportedly preferring to split from the ...
Omar was born on 31 March 2004 in Halmstad, Sweden. He is a native of Uddevalla, Sweden. [1] He is of Somali descent. He has regarded Brazil international Neymar as his football idol. [2] As a youth player, Omar joined the youth academy of Swedish side IFK Uddevalla. In 2019, he joined the youth academy of Italian Serie A side Atalanta.
It was unclear to date if al-Bashir would have been allowed to travel, due to previous sanctions. [41] in 1997, after the U.S. placed sanctions on Sudan, banning all American companies from engaging in its oil sector, after allegations that the government of Omar al-Bashir was supporting terrorists and committing human rights violations. [42]
General Omar Zain al-Abideen, who at the time also served as head of the Transitional Military Council's political committee, [48] said that the military government would not extradite al-Bashir to The Hague to face charges in the International Criminal Court (ICC), where al-Bashir is the subject of an arrest warrant on counts of crimes against ...