“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN
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“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN
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Some African leaders say the International Criminal Court has unfairly targeted African heads of state Zimbabwean leader and African Union chairman Robert Mugabe on Tuesday harshly criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Sudan’s president dodged an international arrest order by leaving early from a meeting of the continent’s leaders in South Africa, a news
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AFP- Johannesburg – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flew out of South Africa on Monday, dodging a court order for him to stay as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested over alleged war crimes and genocide. Bashir had travelled to Johannesburg for an African Union summit that was overshadowed by the International Criminal Court
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Why South Africa let Bashir get away Once again, the ICC comes out as a toothless entity in the wrangling over African leaders accused of war crimes. A provisional court order was issued on Sunday to prevent Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa where he had been attending the African Union (AU) summit.
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Why South Africa let Bashir get away Once again, the ICC comes out as a toothless entity in the wrangling over African leaders accused of war crimes. A provisional court order was issued on Sunday to prevent Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa where he had been attending the African Union (AU) summit.
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes, has left South Africa, pre-empting a court ruling over an international warrant for his arrest. The Pretoria High Court was due to decide whether he should be handed over to the International Criminal Court which charged him with the crimes. Mr Bashir was in Johannesburg
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The Sudanese president has faced the threat of ICC prosecution since 2009 The president of Sudan has claimed victory over the International Criminal Court after it ended its probe into allegations of war crimes in Darfur. The ICC charged Omar al-Bashir in 2009 for crimes in the region dating back to 2003, but he refused
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