Emma Thomasson
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/ 26 April 2008

Global court could indict more over Darfur

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court warned Sudan on Saturday he will move against more officials soon if Khartoum fails to arrest suspects he has sought for a year over crimes in Darfur. Luis Moreno Ocampo told Reuters in an interview he planned to present evidence against new suspects to ICC judges before the end of the year.

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/ 27 February 2007

ICC names first war-crimes suspects in Darfur

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor named the first two suspects accused of committing war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region on Tuesday. Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges to issue summonses for Ahmed Haroun, interior minister during the height of the conflict, and militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman.

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/ 30 July 2006

Rice presses for end to Lebanon crisis

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press Israel and Lebanon on Sunday to strike a deal on an international force to end a 19-day-old war, after Hezbollah threatened to strike deeper into Israel. Rice said she hoped for agreement on terms for a ceasefire to be outlined in a United Nations resolution that could be tabled as early as Tuesday.