Head of the National Congress Party. 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 president-for-life. He has fallen 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. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
ordered on Monday a government reshuffle that saw the replacement of his oil, interior, agriculture, youth and sports and justice ministers.
He also announced a new foreign minister replacing Ibrahim Ghandour, the country’s SUNA new agency reported.
Bashir's ruling National Congress Party introduced a number of ministerial amendments in its share in the cabinet.
The party relieved 13 ministers of their duties, in what observers and opposition figures dismissed as a rotation of power between the ruling political class.
The reshuffle saw al-Dierdiry al-Dhikheri named as the new foreign minister, Ibrahim Hamid as interior minister and Azhari Abdallah as oil minister.
Dhikeri, former Sudanese ambassador to Uganda, had been a member of Khartoum's team that negotiated the separation of south from the north in 2011.