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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. How crazy is that? As much as this result was more-or-less expected, it’s still sort of unprecedented to apprehend a sitting president in this manner.

What is not laughable are the charges levelled against him:

The three judges, acting on evidence gathered by the chief prosecutor’s office, found that the Sudanese president has been personally and criminally responsible for organising attacks against the civilian population of Darfur, “murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians and pillaging their property.”

So what happens next? How will he be “arrested”? Continue reading

The Reader’s Digest has a list of the world’s 9 most dangerous leaders. So which African autocrats have graced it?

Robert Mugabe goes without saying. Perhaps lesser known are Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan and Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea.