Sudan expels Kenya’s ambassador


  1. AfricaNews Monitoring Team with files from BBC
    Sudan has ordered the expulsion of the Kenyan ambassador after a Kenyan judge issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's foreign ministry has said. The Kenyan ambassador to Sudan now has 72 hours to leave that country and subsequently and the Sudanese ambassador in Kenya has also been ordered to return to Khartoum.
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    Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes in Darfur. He was the first head of state to be indicted by the ICC, which accused him of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Sudanese region of Darfur.
    He denies the charges, saying they are politically motivated.

    The High Court in Nairobi on Monday issued the arrest warrant for President Bashir after Kenya allowed him to visit the country in August in defiance of an ICC warrant for his arrest.

    In his ruling, Judge Nicolas Ombija said Mr Bashir's arrest "should be effected by the attorney general and the minister for internal security should he ever set foot in Kenya".

    The case was brought by a non-governmental organisation, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).

    Kenya is a signatory to the treaty which established the ICC in 2002. But like most African countries, it has refused to enforce the ICC warrant for Mr Bashir's arrest.

    The African Union has lobbied for the arrest warrant to be deferred, accusing the ICC of only investigating alleged war crimes in Africa and arguing that arresting Sudan's president would hamper the search for peace in Darfur.

    Malawi and Chad are among other African countries that Bashir has visited in defiance of the arrest warrant.




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