ICC: Sudanese rebel leaders charged with war crimes and slaying of peacekeepers at Haskanita, N. Darfur, W. Sudan

ON Friday 22 October 2010, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a statement confirming that Darfur rebel group leaders Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus (Jerbo) are charged with, quote:

three war crimes (violence to life, in the form of murder, whether committed or attempted; intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, materials, units, and vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission; and pillaging) allegedly committed during an attack carried out on 29 September, 2007, against the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), a peace-keeping mission stationed at the Haskanita Military Group Site, in the locality of Umm Kadada, North Darfur. It is alleged that the attackers killed 12 and severely wounded 8 soldiers, destroyed communications facilities and other materials and appropriated property belonging to AMIS.

Confirmation of charges hearing in the case against Banda and Jerbo to start on 8 December, 2010. The hearing was initially scheduled to start on 22 November, 2010.

Click here to read full story at Sudan Watch, parent site of Congo Watch.



Photo: Jerbo (L) and Banda (R) © ICC-CPI/ Toussaint Kluiters

Sudan seeks Congo's support for candidacy to head ATU

Sudan seeks Congo's support for candidacy to head ATU
From Afrique en ligne (afriquejet.com) - Thursday, 23 September 2010:

(Brazzaville, Congo) - Sudan is seeking the support of Congo for its (Sudan's) candidacy for the leadership of the African Telecommunication Union (ATU). The Sudanese Minister of Communications, Information and Technologies, Ms Theresa Iricio Iro, arrived in Brazzaville Wednesday to make the request for support.

She was received by her Congolese counterpart, Thierry Moungalla.

Congo is hosting, from Thursday (23Sept), the 3rd ordinary session of the ATU conference, at which the new leadership of the union will be elected.