Kammala wannan jumla: Al-Bashir ya mallaki kasar tun 1989 lokacin da ya jagoranci nasara
juyin mulki a kan zaɓaɓɓen, amma ƙara unpopular, firaministan lokacin, Sadiq al-Mahdi. Kotun hukunta manyan laifuka ta duniya (ICC) ta tuhumi Al-Bashir da aikata laifukan yaki da laifukan cin zarafin bil'adama a yankin yammacin Darfur.