Topic: Darfur
International war crimes judges dismissed the case against a Sudanese rebel leader Monday, ruling that prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence to put him on trial for the deaths of international peacekeepers. Bahar Idriss Abu Garda had been accused of planning and participating in an attack on ...
The president of Chad traveled to neighboring Sudan Monday for the first time in nearly six years to try to smooth relations strained over the troubled Darfur region. Sudan has accused its neighbor of backing the Darfur rebels it has battled since 2003. Likewise, Chad says ...
The International Criminal Court will again consider charging Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur, after an appeals panel ruled that judges made an "error in law" when they refused to indict him on that charge last year. "He should get a lawyer ...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court on Wednesday opened the possibility of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir being charged with genocide in Darfur. Appeals judges at the tribunal reversed a decision that prosecutors had not provided enough evidence to add genocide to Bashir's charge sheet, ruling that the ICC's pre-trial chamber must look again at whether he ...
