{"id":61644,"date":"2020-02-12T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61644"},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T02:30:53","slug":"sudan-agrees-ousted-ex-president-omar-al-bashir-must-face-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61644","title":{"rendered":"Sudan agrees ousted ex-president Omar al-Bashir must face ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Omar-al-Bashir-Sudan-agrees-ex-president-must-face-ICC-863230?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/177\/17731082.295.jpg\" alt=\"Omar al-Bashir (left) was convicted of corruption in December(Reuters)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Omar al-Bashir was convicted of corruption in December<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KHARTOUM, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Sudan&#8217;s rulers have agreed to hand over ousted ex-President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face genocide and war crimes charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bashir is accused of serious crimes in a conflict that broke out in Darfur in 2003 and led to the deaths of 300,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities said the former president, and others charged by the ICC, should appear at The Hague to face a tribunal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commitment came at peace talks between Sudan&#8217;s government and rebel groups from the Darfur region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Justice cannot be achieved if we don&#8217;t heal the wounds,&#8221; said Mohammed Hassan Eltaish, a spokesman for the Sudanese government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We agreed that everyone who had arrest warrants issued against them will appear before the ICC. I&#8217;m saying it very clearly,&#8221; he added. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar al-Bashir was convicted of corruption in December KHARTOUM, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Sudan&#8217;s rulers have agreed to hand over ousted ex-President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face genocide and war crimes charges. Bashir is accused of serious crimes in a conflict that broke out in Darfur in 2003 and led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":38381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}