2 days ago · Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other regions, including ...

1 day ago · South Africa and Kenya refused to arrest former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir when he visited. The 81-year-old was ousted from power in a coup in 2019 but the authorities in Sudan have still refused to hand him over to the ICC. Italy claims the ICC warrant for Libyan warlord Ossama Anjiem had procedural errors.

4 days ago · (For background on the ICC’s work on Darfur and the situation in Sudan, see the briefs on Sudan in our August and December 2024 Monthly Forecasts.) At the meeting, Khan is expected to provide an update on the ICC’s recent judicial activities. In December 2024, the ICC concluded the trial in the case of Prosecutor v.

3 days ago · The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Monday that his office will be seeking arrest warrants for those accused of atrocities in Sudan’s West Darfur region, which has seen ...

2 days ago · He has been wanted by the ICC for more than a decade to face charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity during the conflict in Darfur in 2003 and 2004 that left an estimated 300,000 people dead and drove 2.7 million from their homes. ... Al Bashir, who ruled Sudan for three decades, was jailed in Khartoum after he was ...

Jun 11, 2024 · ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan released a video statement in the aftermath of an attack Sunday by the notorious Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group that forced the closure of a main hospital in the western Darfur region. The group fired shots and looted the hospital in al-Fasher, aid group Doctors Without Borders reported.

Jul 13, 2023 · The vast Darfur region was engulfed in bloodshed in 2003 when rebels from the territory’s ethnic central and sub-Saharan African community launched an insurgency accusing the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum of discrimination and neglect.

Oct 20, 2020 · The ICC has outstanding arrest warrants against Messrs Omar Al Bashir, Ahmad Harun, Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein, and Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain. These suspects are still wanted for the atrocity crimes listed in their ICC warrants of arrest. They must all face justice without further delay.

Aug 29, 2022 · On Tuesday 23 August, it was my honour to brief the United Nations Security Council directly from Khartoum. This was the first ever briefing to the Council by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from a Situation country. It underlined a message I have been clear on since taking up my position as Prosecutor in June last year.

2 days ago · Sierra Leone, speaking on behalf of states party to the ICC's Rome Statute, denounced the persistent impunity since 2003 and urged Sudan to cooperate fully with the court to protect the victims.