July 3, 2020-(Khartoum) The General Intelligence Service in Sudan, announced on Thursday evening, the arrest of one of the leaders of the dissolved National Congress Party, Major General Anas Omar, and Colonel Khalid Mohamed Nour, and the person assigned to provide them security, in Al-Hoda neighborhood in Khartoum North.
The Intelligence Service apparatus, said in a press statement , that a joint team of security services was able to arrest the two fugitives, and that the competent authorities is taking all legal and security measures to confront against them.
However, Anas Omar is the chairman of the National Congress Party of ousted President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum State.
He is considered one of the cadres of violence in the former Muslim Brotherhood since his studies at the University of Khartoum, and worked as an intelligence officer in the previous salvation regime.
During his tenure as governor of East Darfur state, Anas Omar, issued directives to bury affiliates of the armed struggle movements alive.
Since fall of the Salvation government, Anas Omar has been leading subversive movements against the transitional authority, and he is one of the main actors in the “green creep” demonstrations in which the
remnants of the Brotherhood have been active.
Sudanese authorities have recently arrested prominent leaders of the dissolved National Congress Party, including party leader Ibrahim Ghandour, former director of popular security, Imad al-Din Hussein,
Tariq Hamza, and leaders Abdul Qadir Muhammad Zain and Omar Nimer.