Al-Bashir rallies Sudanese ahead of warrant decision
President Omar al-Bashir is seeking to rally the Sudanese people behind him ahead of a decision by the ICC on whether to seek his arrest.
President Omar al-Bashir is seeking to rally the Sudanese people behind him ahead of a decision by the ICC on whether to seek his arrest.
The ICC will announce on Wednesday whether it will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
Fighting in the key south Sudan town of Malakal this week has killed about 50 people and left another 100 wounded, a UN official said on Friday.
Darfur’s strongest rebel group said on Tuesday it would refocus efforts to topple the Sudanese president should the ICC issue a warrant for his arrest
The Sudanese government will release 24 detainees involved in the Darfur conflict as a goodwill gesture before planned peace talks with rebels.
South Africa is trying to persuade the ICC to delay its indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges.
A powerful Sudanese rebel leader met secretly with top Israeli espionage officials in Israel this month, Israeli defence officials said on Monday.
The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it has not issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur.
Sudan has sought to play down reports that International Criminal Court judges have decided to issue an arrest warrant for its president.
Sudan warned on Thursday that it would use ”all options” available if the ICC were to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir.
An arrest warrant by the ICC against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir might have an adverse impact on UN personnel in Sudan, the UN says.
A detained Sudanese opposition leader could be tried over accusations of supporting a Darfur rebel movement, state media reported on Monday.
A Sudanese opposition leader on Monday called on Sudan’s president to hand himself over to the International Criminal Court.
A leading political rival of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s embattled president, is to hold talks with President George Bush in Washington on Monday.
The situation in Sudan’s Darfur region is deteriorating with violence on the rise despite claims to the contrary by the Khartoum government.
Sudan’s continued attacks on civilians in Darfur show how empty Khartoum’s promises of peace for the region are, human rights organisations say.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday announced an immediate ceasefire in Darfur.
If the ICC indicts Sudan’s president for war crimes it could ruin a peace process that ended two decades of civil war, a senior UN official says.
The top US diplomat on Africa said on Monday that progress has been made recently in the deployment of UN peacekeepers to Darfur.
Arab militia attacks on Sudanese villages near a south Darfur flashpoint displaced up to 12 000 people and killed more than 40 civilians.
A leading human rights group on Tuesday slammed Sudanese investigations into Darfur atrocities as ”window dressing”.
Sudan’s president, accused of genocide by the ICC, launched a national initiative on Thursday to bring peace to Darfur.
Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Thursday that war-crimes allegations against him are fabricated.
Sudan’s president, accused of genocide in Darfur by the West, says rich countries are bullying the planet’s poorest states.
Sudan’s vice-president has dismissed a possible war-crimes indictment of the country’s president as a plan intended to derail Darfur’s peace process.
The prosecutor of the ICC heads for New York this week seeking backing for his bid to try Sudan President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes.
The AU will ask the UN to defer possible proceedings for alleged war crimes against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the AU said on Monday.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said the ICC attempt to prosecute him for genocide and war crimes had only strengthened his position.
When Sudan’s president landed in this remote western Darfur town, he was warmly greeted by a man who by all logic should be his mortal enemy.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on his first trip abroad since the ICC moved to indict him for war crimes, on Tuesday denied the charges.
A coalition of lawyers, academics and NGOs has begun openly to criticise the competence of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actor and activist Mia Farrow is webcasting the ”Darfur Olympics” from a refugee camp on the Sudan-Chad border.