ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda shakes hands with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
Uganda and Djibouti have been referred to the UN Security Council after the countries failed to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir who is wanted by the International Criminal Court.
In a statement, ICC said that the two East African countries “have failed to comply with the request for arrest and surrender Omar al-Bashir to the ICC”.
ICC has already referred the matter to the UN Security Council as well as the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) urging the bodies to take any measures they deem necessary regarding the matter.
Bashir travelled to Kampala and Djibouti in May to attend the swearing in ceremonies of long-time Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his counterpart in Djibouti, President Ismail Omar Guelleh.
South Africa also failed to arrest Bashir when he attended an African Union summit in Johannesburg.
Bashir in May also applied for a US visa to attend the next UN General Assembly in September, with his Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Kamal Ismail saying it was Khartoum’s right to send a delegation to the UN meeting.
The Sudanese leader faces genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity charges allegedly committed in the Darfur region of western Sudan between 2003 and 2008.
Bashir was indicted by the ICC in 2009 after a brutal counter-insurgency, in which at least 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million others forced to flee their homes.
