Omar al-Bashir

President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019

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Born 1944
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Updated 2026-06-08

He ruled Sudan for thirty years and became the first sitting head of state indicted by the International Criminal Court — charged with directing mass killing, rape, and pillage in Darfur, where death tolls reached as high as 400,000.

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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, born 1 January 1944, seized power in 1989 as a brigadier general, leading officers who ousted Sudan's democratically elected government after it opened talks with southern rebels. He won three presidential elections marked by fraud allegations and founded the National Congress Party in 1998, which dominated until his fall. His government negotiated the 2005 end to the Second Sudanese Civil War, leading to South Sudan's independence, but in Darfur he oversaw a war that displaced 2.5 million from a population of 6.2 million and sparked an ICC arrest warrant in March…

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