AFRICA/SUDAN - "Assurance in South Africa: President Bashir will leave", said a spokesman in Khartoum

Monday, 15 June 2015

Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been ordered not to leave South Africa by the Pretoria High Court, is still in the country but will leave later on Monday, a Sudanese presidency spokesman said. President Omar al-Bashir, visiting South Africa for an African Union summit, stands accused in an ICC arrest warrant of war crimes and crimes against humanity over atrocities committed in the Darfur conflict.
South Africa, a founding member of the ICC, is legally bound to respect the order of arrest, but is also a member of the African Union, which in January ordered its members not to execute it.
The ICC is criticized in Africa because it is seen as a "Western" tool intended to impose on the African continent changes which European countries and North America enjoy. (LM) (Agenzia Fides 15/06/2015)


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