Situation Report: Sudan: What Implications for President Al-Bashir's Indictment by the ICC? Issaka K. Souare

Whereas the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to end Sudan’s long civil war entered the mid-point of the  six-year interim period in early July 2008, the Darfur crisis continued unabated and the peace process for Darfur had been almost at a dead-end since the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in  Abuja, Nigeria in May 2006. Moreover, although its force was building up, the deployment of troops of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) was far from being complete, nor was it free from obstacles.

This notwithstanding, on 14 July 2008 the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged President Omar  Hassan Al-Bashir, the President of the Republic of Sudan, with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the armed conflict in Darfur since July 2002.