...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
summit meeting meant to discuss development issues was being overshadowed by the possible participation of Sudan's president, who risks arrest on international criminal charges if he enters host nation South Africa.
Never happen. Heads of state don't get arrested, not since Richard the Lion-hearted was held for ransom.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
is travelling to the talks along with dozens of other leaders in South Africa's largest city Johannesburg, risking arrest due to standing
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
warrants for genocide and crimes against humanity, according to a report by the country's state media published on Saturday.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said South Africa was under a legal obligation to arrest al-Bashir and surrender him to the court. Her office has been in touch with South African authorities on the Sudanese president's reported visit, she said in a telephone interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
"We've been in contact and we are basically reminding them of their obligation under the Rome Statute to have him locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
if he gets to South Africa," Bensouda said, referring to the court's founding treaty.
If al-Bashir is not arrested, the matter will be reported to the court's assembly of states and the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Security Council, which first referred the case of Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court in 2005, she said.