Sudanese leader travels despite warrant

  1. Posted on Wednesday 4 August 2010 - 10:21
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    Ryekolal Raphie AfricaNews in Kampala Uganda Flashback: Al-Bashir's recent visit to Chad
    Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir is to embark on a two-day official state visit to neighbouring Libya on Wednesday despite an arrest warrant on him.
    SUDAN- Bashir defies ICC with Chad trip
    According to Rabie Abdelati Obeid, a prominent member of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party, “This visit to Libya will be on certain issues. Issue number one is the (bilateral relations) between Libya and Sudan. Number two will be on the discussion of different regional issues concerning (the) African Union and the Arab League. And, (Libya’s mutual relations) with Sudan in the state of commercial activities and movement of people from Libya to Sudan and vice-versa, as well as technical cooperation between (them).”

    Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the largest Darfur-based rebel group, is currently in Libya after Chad refused him entry. This comes after the rebels abandoned peace talks with Khartoum after accusing the government of attacking its positions in western Darfur.

    Obeid told the VOA that Libya has assured Sudan that it will not allow Ibrahim and his rebels to use “its territory” as a base to launch attacks against the people of Sudan and President Bashir’s visit should not be misconstrued as a direct challenge to the arrest warrants issued against him.

    Last month, embattled President Bashir went on a state visit to neighboring Chad, days after the ICC issued an additional arrest warrant against him for genocide in Darfur. Several international rights groups demanded his arrest since Chad is a signatory to the Rome Statute which led to the formation of the ICC.

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