I have been delaying writing about the ICC Chief Prosecutor’s public application for an arrest warrant against President Bashir until that application is public. As it is still not available, let me comment on the press conference. In the absence

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The growth of a private security industry in Africa is a not a recent development. But the growth of a local one deserves particular attention. My article, ‘Local Dynamics of Security in Africa: The Central African Republic and Private Security,’

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Abdullahi Gallab’s book has taken me back in time. Writing nearly twenty years ago I thought that Sudan could not be governed by any ideologically driven regime, and this book clearly shows both one such attempt and its failure. The

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For Sudan’s governing National Congress Party, the unsettling prospect of having its leader, President Omer Hassan al-Bashir, indicted for the government’s disastrous response to the Darfur insurgency over the last five years has only succeeded in galvanizing the party and

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The world holds its collective breath, and waits to see the repercussions of the ICC prosecutor’s request to indict President Bashir. Much is at stake, not least the court’s credibility. To pursue a prosecution as currently envisaged by the ICC,

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International Law must be delivered with the right procedures and indubitable evidences if it has to be credited as objective justice. This Law of Nations must not be biased with politics of selfish competition in the international and global interests.

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To date, the application by Moreno Ocampo for an arrest warrant for President Omar al Bashir has not led to disaster in Sudan. The CPA is intact, the UN operations are continuing, there have been no clashes between government supporters

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Memorandum to EU Ambassadors On the ICC and Sudan From: Al Sadig Al Mahdi President of Umma National Party 17th July 2008 Excellencies, I have requested this meeting, which you have kindly arranged to update you on events in the

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Attempting to make a snap judgment on the outcome of the ICC’s intervention is perhaps a mistake. Commentators on both sides of the argument have skilfully demonstrated the complexities and possible consequences involved. While not wishing to add to the

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Something is definitely happening – and there may even be reasons to be faintly optimistic about it. Having presented a ‘worst case scenario’ earlier in this discussion, perhaps it is worth setting out a ‘best case scenario’, looking at the

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