Early and Family Life
Al-Bashir was born in Hosh Bannaga, just north of the capital, Khartoum. He belongs to Al-Bedairya Al-Dahmashya a religious clan of the larger ja'alin tribe, an Arab tribe in middle north of Sudan, then part of the Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan. He received his primary education there, and his family later moved to Khartoum where he completed his secondary education. Al-Bashir is married to his cousin Fatima Khalid. He also has a second wife named Widad Babiker Omer, who had a number of children with her first husband Ibrahim Shamsaddin, a member of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation who had died in a helicopter crash. He recently married for the third time. Al-Bashir does not have any children of his own.
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