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The United Nations Security Council on Friday deadlocked on what action to take following the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) indictment of President Omar al-Bashir:

Mr. Bashir’s supporters, led by Libya and China, insisted that any official statement issued by the Council simultaneously address the potential humanitarian crisis and a possible deferral of the charges, while Western nations blasted the idea of linking the two issues and warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophe that could affect millions.

In the meantime, aid agencies have been expelled from the region leaving hundreds of thousands without medical assistance and food. Continue reading

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