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TIMELINE: Sudan president Omer Al-Bashir

1944: Omer Hassan Al-Bashir is born in the northern Sudan village of Hosh Banaga.

Sudan president Omer Al-Bashir (AFP)
Sudan president Omer Al-Bashir (AFP)
1960: Joins the Sudanese army and graduates from the military academy six years later.

1973: Served with the Egyptian army during the Yom Kippur war.

1989: Brigadier Al-Bashir is chosen by the National Islamic Front (NIF) and its leader Hassan Al-Turabi to lead a coup ousting the government led by Prime Minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi. He is proclaimed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation.

1993: The Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation is dissolved and Bashir is announced as president of Sudan.

1996: Al-Bashir wins the presidential elections with 75.7% of the votes. All major parties boycotted the elections.

1999: Al-Turabi who was parliament speaker introduced a bill to curb the president’s powers, after which Al-Bashir dissolved the parliament and declare a state of emergency following backing by the army and major figures at the NIF.

2000: Al-Bashir is reelected for a second five years term receiving 86.5% of the votes.

2001: The Sudanese president orders the arrest of Al-Turabi on allegations that he was trying to overthrow the government.

2003: Two Darfur rebel groups rise up, saying government neglects arid region and arms Arab militia against civilians.

2004: The UN says Darfur has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Washington labels the Darfur conflict as genocide.

2005: The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) led by Bashir and Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by John Garang sign a peace agreement ending two decades of civil war between North and South.

2006: Al-Bashir refuses to accept UN peacekeepers in Darfur accusing the world body of ‘neo-colonialism’.

2008: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo requests an arrest warrant for Al-Bashir including three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. The charges are connected to the conflict that broke out in Darfur in 2003.

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