...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
Now it has become a shell of its former self.
Charred aircraft lie on the airport tarmac, foreign embassies are shuttered and hospitals, banks, shops and wheat silos have been ransacked by looters.
Fighting continued Monday morning, with loud explosions heard across Khartoum and thick smoke billowing in the sky while warplanes flying overhead drew anti-aircraft fire, according to witnesses.
"The situation is becoming worse by the day," said a 37-year-old resident of southern Khartoum who did not wish to be named. "People are getting more and more scared because the two sides... are becoming more and more
The fighting broke out on April 15 between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). While the generals fight, what remains of the government has retreated to Port Sudan about 850 kilometres (500 miles) away, the hub for mass evacuations of both Sudanese and foreign citizens. The battles have killed more than 750 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, with thousands more maimed and nearly a million displaced.
Multiple truce deals have been violated, and hopes are dim for an end to the fighting. Both sides "break ceasefires with a regularity that demonstrates a sense of impunity unprecedented even by Sudan’s standards of civil conflict," said Alex Rondos, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...’s former special representative to the Horn of Africa.
In their latest moves, Burhan declared that he was freezing the RSF’s assets, while Daglo threatened in an audio recording that the army chief would be "brought to justice and hanged" in a public square.