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  • FILE: Sudan's deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir sits in a defendant's cage during his corruption trial in Khartoum on 24 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan's Bashir questioned over 1989 coup that brought him to power

    Omar al Bashir, who ruled Sudan until the military removed him in April following months of street protests, was charged in May with incitement and involvement in the killing of protesters.

    497 days ago
  • FILE: Sudan's deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir sits in a defendant's cage during his corruption trial in Khartoum on 24 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan adopts law to dissolve Bashir party, 'dismantle' regime

    Bashir and his Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) had ruled the northeast African country since 1989 before a nationwide protest movement resulted in him being deposed earlier this year.

    509 days ago
  • FILE: Sudan's deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir sits in a defendant's cage during his corruption trial in Khartoum on 24 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Unfinished business in the birthplace of Sudan's revolution

    It took another four months for the military, which had ousted Omar al-Bashir, to formally agree to a three-year power-sharing deal with a civilian-led transitional government.

    516 days ago
  • FILE: Abdalla Hamdok speaks after being sworn in as Sudan's interim prime minister in the capital Khartoum on 21 August 2019.  Picture: AFP

    'There are problems': Doubts in Darfur as new PM promises peace

    Violence may have subsided since the days when Bashir mobilised mostly Arab militia to crush an uprising by mostly non-Arab rebels, unleashing a wave of killings and mass displacement that Washington and others called genocide.

    532 days ago
  • Abdallah Hamdok, speaks after being sworn in as Sudan's interim prime minister in the capital Khartoum on 21 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan discussing cash transfers to poor as part of food subsidies plan

    Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told Reuters cash transfers were one scenario discussed to offset a cut in food and other subsidies.

    532 days ago
  • FILE: Sudanese demonstrators march during a protest in Bahri, the capital Khartoum's northern district, on 21 October 2019. Picture: AFP

    Tens of thousands rally against former ruling party in Sudan

    Thousands gathered in Freedom Square, where ousted president Omar al-Bashir held a large rally in his final months in power, to call for the dissolution of his National Congress Party.

    546 days ago
  • Abdallah Hamdok, speaks after being sworn in as Sudan's interim prime minister in the capital Khartoum on 21 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan PM Hamdok arrives in Juba on first official trip

    Hamdok, heading an 18-member transitional government following the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir, is set to meet South Sudan President Salva Kiir as well as Sudanese opposition leaders on his two-day visit

    586 days ago
  • Women have their hair styled at a hairdresser's salon in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on 29 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    In post-Bashir Sudan, change comes in many guises

    Now the barbershop he works in is seeing an influx of young men coming for modern hairstyles that would have incurred the same punishment under the now-ousted and jailed Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir.

    598 days ago
  • FILE: Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir on 14 March 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Sudan court charges Bashir with holding illegal foreign funds

    A Sudanese court on Saturday charged ousted president Omar al-Bashir with illegal acquisition and use of foreign funds.

    598 days ago
  • FILE: Sudan's deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir sits in a defendant's cage during his corruption trial in Khartoum on 24 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Bashir defence asks Sudan court for bail release

    Bashir, wearing a traditional white gown, sat in the same metal cage he appeared in on Monday when his trial on graft charges opened.

    605 days ago
  • FILE: Deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir. Picture: AFP

    Ex-Sudan president got millions from Saudis, court hears

    Bashir listened to the testimony without comment, sitting in a metal cage and wearing traditional white robes and a turban in his first appearance in a Khartoum courtroom.

    610 days ago
  • FILE: Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir on 14 March 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Sudan's Bashir got $90 mn from Saudi royal family members

    The former president, who was forced from power by months of protests in April after 30 years in power, sat in a metal cage wearing a traditional white gown.

    610 days ago
  • FILE: Omar al-Bashir is escorted before being driven in an armed convoy from the Kober prison to the prosecutor's office in North Khartoum on 16 June 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan's Bashir in court for graft trial: AFP

    Bashir (75) was forced from power on 11 April, after months of protest against his regime and appeared before a prosecutor for the first time on 16 June.

    611 days ago
  • (L to R) Ethiopian mediator Mahmoud Drir, protest leader Ahmad Rabie, and General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, celebrate after signing the constitutional declaration, at a ceremony attended by African Union and Ethiopian mediators in the capital Khartoum on 4 August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan generals, protesters sign deal paving way for civilian rule

    Under the agreement, signed at a ceremony in the capital Khartoum, a joint civilian-military ruling body will oversee the formation of a civilian government and parliament to govern for a three-year transition period

    625 days ago
  • FILE: Omar al-Bashir is escorted before being driven in an armed convoy from the Kober prison to the prosecutor's office in North Khartoum on 16 June 2019. Picture: AFP

    Corruption trial of Sudan's Bashir to begin 17 August: lawyer

    The head of ousted Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir's defence team, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir, said the trial had no 'political background'.

    629 days ago
  • FILE: Sudanese protestors chant slogans demanding civilian rule on 30 June 2019 during a rally in Khartoum's southern al-Sahafa district. Police fired tear gas at protesters in Khartoum as thousands gathered for a mass demonstration against Sudan's ruling generals, amid international calls for restraint to avoid a new deadly crackdown. Picture: AFP.

    UAE calls for dialogue in Sudan to avoid violence

    Ethiopia and the African Union have been mediating between the two sides but have yet to achieve a breakthrough.

    659 days ago
  • Chronology of Sudan's political crisis

    An infographic of the chronology of Sudan's political crisis. Picture: AFP.

    673 days ago
  • FILE: Omar al-Bashir is escorted before being driven in an armed convoy from the Kober prison to the prosecutor's office in North Khartoum on 16 June 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan's Bashir charged on corruption in first public appearance since ouster

    Wearing traditional white robes and turban, he was driven to the prosecutor’s office in Khartoum, Reuters witnesses said.

    674 days ago
  • FILE: Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir on 14 March 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Sudan's Bashir to appear in court on graft charge: prosecutor

    Omar al-Bashir "will appear in court next week following charges of corruption and possessing foreign currency," Al-Waleed Sayyed Ahmed said, without specifying the day.

    675 days ago
  • Sudanese security forces ride in the back of a pick up truck through a main avenue in Khartoum as the military continued to disperse protesters by force in Sudan's capital on 4 June 2019.  Picture: AFP

    JEAN-JACQUES CORNISH: Sudanese enthusiastic as negotiations resume

    The African Union has taken the unprecedented step of suspending Sudan under its current military junta because of the 3 June slaying of at least 118 unarmed pro-democracy activists.

    678 days ago
  • Sudanese protesters gather during a demonstration outside the central bank in Khartoum on 29 May 2019. Picture: AFP

    Sudan strikes suspended as talks resume

    Talks have resumed between Sudan’s military and opposition alliance groups.

    678 days ago
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