Omar al-Bashir
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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as head of state of Sudan under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. H
Al-Bashir in 2009
Omar al-Bashir in 1989
Omar al-Bashir (centre) and Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein (blue fatigue) in front of the Republican Palace after the coup
Al-Bashir and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, 2005
War in Darfur
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The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equa
Omar al-Bashir
…War, leading to a referendum in the south, resulting in the separation of the south as the country of South Sudan. In the Darfur region, he oversaw the War in Darfur that resulted in death tolls of around 10,000 according to the Sudanese Government, but most sources suggest between 200,000 and 400,000. During his…
The Janjaweed have been a major player in the conflict.
Darfur refugee camp in Chad, 2005
AMIS soldiers from Rwanda preparing to depart to Darfur in 2005
Minni Minnawi with U.S. President George W. Bush after he signed the May agreement