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Last Updated: ICC Prosecutor: Darfur Victims Want To See Al-Bashir In Court International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Wednesday that victims of war crimes and genocide in the Darfur region want former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir brought to the court. International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Wednesday that victims of war crimes and genocide in the Darfur region want former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir brought to the court. Bensouda...

International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said on Wednesday that victims of war crimes and genocide in the Darfur region want former Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir brought to the court as she urged the country to hand over those accused. “It is clear that the victims of these crimes also want him [to face] the ICC ... in any discussion that is going to take place, that issue cannot be disregarded," she said. She urged Sudan to hand over Ahmed Haroun, one of several former re...

At least 128 said to have died in security forces clampdown

May 28 - 2021 EL GENEINA UN Flag (UN) The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued a report yesterday on the emergency situation in West Darfur in the aftermath of the deadly violence in the state’s capital El Geneina last month. OCHA logo (UN OCHA) In its report, OCHA called the security situation in the city “calm but remains tense and unpredictable”. On 18 May, five people were killed in clashes in Gellu village 37km from El Geneina a...

May 27 - 2021 THE HAGUE Amal Clooney during her closing argument statement at the ICC trial of Ali Kyshayb (ICC) During the closing arguments at the hearing to confirm* 31 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes against the former Darfur janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abdelrahman (also known as Ali Kushayb), before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, Legal Representative of Victims Amal Clooney plead...

The Director of Information in Khartoum state, El Tayeb Saad Eddin, was arrested yesterday for alleged involvement in leaking state information to ‘an active group affiliated to the ousted Al Bashir regime’.

The Khartoum court that is trying deposed former president Omar Al Bashir and 27 former officials for the 1989 coup that swept the regime to power, has heard a detailed list of those involved in the plot in testimony from one of the co-accused.

May 23 - 2021 PARIS Darfur Governor Minni Minawi interviewed by Radio Dabanga Editor-in-Chief Kamal Elsadig on the periphery of the Paris Conference this week (RD) The governor of the Darfur region and the head of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Minni Minawi, has called on the transitional government to expedite and immediately pay the ‘peace dues’ for Darfur in accordance with the Juba peace agreement signed in October. In an interview with Radio Dabanga on the perip...

May 19 - 2021 PARIS Sudans PM Hamdok addresses the Paris Conference yesterday (SUNA) Sudan’s debt arrears to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank (ADB) have been cleared, further paving the way for Sudan’s re-entry into the international financial community, and for Sudan’s economic recovery. The Sudanese Pound has strengthened against international currencies following the announcement. In a statement yesterday fol...

Tomorrow, a high-level Paris conference on investment in Sudan will start, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. The meetings are attended by Sudanese top officials, representatives of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Paris Club, with the aim to re-integrate Sudan into the international community and attract much-needed foreign investments.