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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Saturday its president was free to travel across Africa after heads of state of the African Union voted not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court's indictment of him. Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attends the opening of the African Union (AU) summit in Sirte, about 600km east of Tripoli, July 1, 2009. (REUTERS/Ismail Zetouny) The global court has issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges he masterminded human rights abuses in Sudan's western Darfur region. Under the court's founding statute, member countries are required to arrest suspects within their territories. Bashir has only visited states not bound by the court's rules since the warrant was issued in March. African Union heads of state meeting in Libya on Friday adopted a motion... [read full story]
Khartoum's United Nations envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said early Tuesday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave. Saying it...
Next August Botswana will sign a treaty to formalise the establishment of the Trans-frontier Conservation Area (TFCA) in Namibia. Botswana will be joining the four states of Namibia, Zambia, Angola and Zimbabwe to formalise the...
Opposition alliance refuse regional mediator, Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore's plan for interim government, which includes Guinea's military ruler Captain Moussa Camara Scott Stearns | Dakar 23 November 2009 Photo: AP...
South African President Jacob Zuma has postponed his visit to assess Zimbabwe's troubled power sharing agreement after the feuding parties missed a deadline to kick start negotiations but his advisors have expressed impatience...
