Hassan al Turabi, a graduate of Khartoum University School of Law and of the Sorbonne, became a leader of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1960s. When Gen. Jafa'ar Nimeiri took power in a ...

KHARTOUM, Sudan — A turbaned Hassan Turabi sinks back into a large, plush sitting-room sofa, his stockinged feet barely touching the floor. It’s hard to comprehend that this aging former law professor ...

The loosely wrapped turban and flowing white gown of a Nile farmer belie the advanced degrees in philosophy from the University of London and law from the Sorbonne. But then Hassan Turabi has long ...

Death ended Hassan al-Turabi’s long political career last March in the most suitable of places. Hassan collapsed in his office in the headquarters of the Popular Congress Party (PCP) in Khartoum’s ...

Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese Islamist leader who died on Saturday, was an outspoken veteran politician who was in and out of jail over a career spanning some four decades. The 84-year-old died of a ...

KHARTOUM, June 30, 2005 (Sudan Tribune) — Sudanese prominent Islamist Hassan Turabi, detained last year on suspicion of plotting a coup, was freed today. Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, ...

Senior Sudanese officials joined some 3,000 mourners on Sunday at the funeral of veteran Islamist leader Hassan Turabi, an ally turned outspoken critic of the regime. Police were out in force as ...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will see an economic crisis after the south secedes in July that could lead to protests and instability as inflation gets worse, opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi said on ...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Hassan Turabi, a former Islamic power broker who once called the United States "the incarnation of the devil" and said he regarded Osama bin Laden as a hero, was detained by ...

Sudanese security forces arrested Sudan's top Islamist opposition leader overnight after he called for a Tunisia-style uprising in the country, family members said Tuesday. Hassan Turabi and his ...

KHARTOUM, May 17 (Reuters) - Sudan will see an economic crisis after the south secedes in July that could lead to protests and instability as inflation gets worse, opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi ...