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Africa Subsaharan
Malawi warns Bashir of arrest at summit
2012-06-05
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Malawi President Joyce Banda has assured British Secretary of State for International Affairs Andrew Mitchell that the country will arrest Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir if the enters the country.

President Banda told Mr Mitchell during a closed door meeting in Blantyre that there was need to iron out issues surrounding Malawi's position on Bashir.

She is said to have told Mr Mitchell that she has made it clear to the AU that President Bashir will be arrested
Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up, Mister President!
if he comes to Malawi for the 19th Summit of the African Union.
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
President Bashir is expected to be in Malawi in July, with other African Presidents, for the summit.

Initially, Malawi sought the help of the Africa Union to convince President Bashir not to come to the summit, however the AU Commission said it had no mandate to stop a president of a member country from attending a summit.

In October last year, President Bashir visited Malawi to attend a Comesa summit and the country attracted international condemnation for failing to arrest him.

He is wanted by International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
(ICC) to answer cases of human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
abuses against his people.
Posted by:Fred

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