Tag: #OmaralBashir
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Arab fund offers $305 mln loan to cash-starved Sudan
Khartoum, Nov 15 (AFP/APP): Sudan said Thursday it would receive a $305 million loan from an Arab fund to help tackle the country’s worsening economic crisis led by soaring food prices and foreign currency shortage. Sudan’s economic woes had led to nationwide protests that resulted in the ouster of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April.…
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Sudan’s Bashir, aides to face charges for ‘plotting’ 1989 coup
Khartoum, Nov 13 (AFP/APP): Sudanese authorities on Tuesday filed new charges against ousted leader Omar al-Bashir and some of his aides for “plotting” the 1989 coup that brought him to power, the country’s protest movement said. Bashir, who was a brigadier at the time, seized power in an coup that toppled the then elected government…
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Sudan protest group has ‘no objection’ to handing Bashir to ICC
Khartoum, Nov 4 (AFP/APP): The protest movement that led to the ouster of Sudan’s longtime president Omar al-Bashir said Sunday it was not against handing over the deposed autocrat to the International Criminal Court to be tried for genocide. Bashir, who was ousted by the army in April after a nationwide agitation against his rule,…