Jammeh strongly supported Gadaffi's move at the AU summit to defy the International Criminal Court's warrant for Sudanese President Omer el Beshir...
The ICC has issued indictments against militia leaders in Congo-Kinshasa Uganda and against Sudan's President Omer el Beshir...
An international court - the PCA - that Khartoum does recognise has given it ammunition against one that it doesn't - the International Criminal Court which indicted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir for war crimes and crimes against humanity...
However Gration's approach of engagement with President Omer el Beshir's regime in Khartoum has generated strong criticism inside and outside the administration (AC Vol 50 No 13)...
That is why the NIF carefully rebranded as the National Congress Party (NCP) confounded forecasters from Egypt to Eritrea to the late Colonel John Garang de Mabior who taunted Brigadier General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir as a 'junior rebel' (AC Vol 30 Nos 15 & 16)...
Despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is still there...
Vol 50 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Relations with Khartoum's National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) regime are more problematic: SA has ratified the International Criminal Court statutes and would be legally required to arrest Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir should he try to visit SA (he was conspicuously absent from Zuma's inauguration in May)...
Key members of the party include: Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir President; Islamist since his school days; paratrooper; fought Israel in 1973 and is still fighting; gained power since the months after the coup when he had none but is still not main decision-maker; wanted by International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur...
Asmara now has an unexpected adversary in an African Union which defends Issayas’s new ally Sudan’s President Omer el Beshir indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court...
They and others blessing the summit including the African Union Arab League and United Nations Mission in Darfur will not be happy that Khartoum has sabotaged it even though Sudanese President Omer el Beshir was invited...
The plan appears to be a new offensive at a time when the National Congress (NC aka National Islamic Front NIF) regime is focussing on the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...