Topic: Omar al-Bashir
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The International Criminal Court's docket in Africa
With the confirmation of charges against four senior Kenyan leaders, there are now seven different countries where the International Criminal Court has filed charges of crimes against humanity. All of those cases emanate from Africa.
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Where is Qaddafi now?
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South Sudan: a timeline to independence
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ICC issues Qaddafi warrant: Key prosecutions of world leaders
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From Libya's Qaddafi to Sudan's Bashir: Key International Criminal Court inquiries
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Will Bashir's visit help close the divide between the Sudans?
On Friday Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir visited South Sudan for the first time since the two countries split in 2011. Experts say it's a sign that relations between the Sudans are finally stabilizing.
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Sudan's Bashir starts freeing prisoners, polishing up legacy
Sudan’s president Omar Al Bashir is wanted for genocide and war crimes by the International Criminal Court, but as he steps down in 2015 he would like to have a different image.
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Indicted abroad for crimes, Kenya's new leaders pose diplomatic dilemma
Foreign governments must decide how to interact with Kenya's newly elected president, Uhuru Kenyatta, because of his indictments at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Can Kenya's March election avoid killings, catastrophe, of last national vote?Kenya prized its strategic and symbolic importance as one of Africa's leading democracies. But bloody post-election riots in 2007 has the world now watching.
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Terrorism & Security Kenyan court clears Kenyatta for presidential bid, despite war crime charges
The International Criminal Court ruled that Uhuru Kenyatta was one of those 'most responsible' for Kenya's 2007 post-election violence. But that won't stop him from running for president.
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Top Kenyan presidential contender faces trial at Hague
Leading Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta faces trial on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Opinion: North Korea threatens US – what about its own people?
As North Korea threatens the US, South Korea, and world peace with hints of a third nuclear test, what about its threat to its own people? It has one of the worst human rights records in the world. The UN must open a 'commission of inquiry' into crimes against humanity.
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Some 100,000 flee Darfur, many villages burned, 100 dead: UN
Weeks of clashes around a gold mine dispute in northern Sudan ends with dozens of villages burned, and human toll worse than estimated.
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Sudan's Bashir threatens Israel over alleged airstrikeSudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir vowed today to retaliate against Israel for a recent alleged airstrike. The Monitor explains the background of the dispute.
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Iranian warships dock in Sudan after alleged Israeli airstrikes
The visit has put Sudan's links to Iran under closer scrutiny.
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Sudan and South Sudan strike 'partial peace' deal
Though analysts call the peace deal between Sudan and South Sudan 'partial,' President Obama praised the move, calling it an 'important step' away from conflict.
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Sudan's struggling government loses top officials in plane crash
Two generals, the Minister of Endowment, and a former adviser to President Omar al-Bashir were among the 32 people who died Sunday.
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Sudan's struggling government offers to go '100 percent Islamic'The government faces new pressures from the loss of territory and oil revenue to South Sudan, but the push for an Islamic constitution has much older roots.
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Sudanese factory destroyed by US now a shrinePresident Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile strike on the pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum in 1998; the Sudanese still haven't forgotten.
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Sudan allows aid into border areas after oil deal struck with South Sudan
The border areas are facing an impending famine. An oil transit fee deal between Sudan and South Sudan is a move toward ending conflict between the two nations.
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Opinion: Vast humanitarian crisis in Sudan – again
Hillary Rodham Clinton's brief visit to South Sudan provided an opportunity for the United States to show leadership in countering a vast humanitarian crisis in the border region between Sudan and South Sudan. Once again, the world is looking away.
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Sudan: 'Arab Spring' protests wane, but activists remain optimistic
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been a 'genius' at cracking down on opposition, activists say. But the government's control may work to its disadvantage, as economic woe continues.
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Inside Sudan's prisons: Sudanese protesters speak out
Sudan's National Intelligence Security Service, blamed for the arrests and detention of some 2,000 protesters in the past month, are using torture, activists say.
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Evidence exists to bring Syria war-crimes case: French diplomat (+video)
France's top human rights diplomat says 'the raw material is there' in the Syria conflict to refer case to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
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Thomas Lubanga: Congolese warlord first person ever sentenced by ICC (+video)
A tough ICC sentence for rebel commander Thomas Lubanga, convicted of recruiting and using child soldiers from 2002 to 2003, sets precedent for seven other pending war crimes cases.
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Africa Monitor Why do the Sudanese protests get so little news coverage?
The Bashir administration's hold on power is precarious. But you won't see that story on TV news or your newspaper's front page.
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Opinion: Why there will be no foreign military intervention in Syria
Despite the apparent failure of the meeting in Geneva over the weekend and a new Human Rights Watch report of widespread torture by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, a foreign military intervention in Syria is unlikely. In fact, there is reason to doubt that Washington really wants Assad to fall.
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Is Sudan having its own 'Arab Spring?'
Prompted by rising prices for food, housing, and fuel, student protests have spread to cities across the country. Will the government's harsh crackdown backfire and fuel the movement?
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US ambassador taps Facebook to drive wedge between Syrian military and Assad
Using social media, US Ambassador Robert Ford warns Syrian military officers they could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity by following President Bashar al-Assad’s orders.
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The Daily Reckoning Zombie apocalypse? Economic zombies thrive off of state spending
Funded by cheap credit and government spending, Bonner foresees an impending war ahead between the zombies — people who take money from the productive sector of the economy and transfer it to themselves — and the productive parts of the economy.
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