Sudan's ex-president Bashir charged with corruption, holding illicit foreign currency

Record ID: 1429481

  • Title: Sudan's ex-president Bashir charged with corruption, holding illicit foreign currency
  • Date: 31st August 2019
  • Summary: WESTERN DARFUR, SUDAN (FILE - JULY 24, 2008) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** AL-BASHIR EXITING PLANE, WAVING HIS STICK AL-BASHIR STANDING IN BACK OF VEHICLE SURROUNDED BY CHEERING CROWD AND HOLDING UP HIS STICK ARMY HELICOPTER FLYING ABOVE CROWD (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SUDANESE PRESIDENT, OMAR HASSAN AL-BASHIR, ADDRESSING CROWD AND SAYING: "We have come here to confirm to you that we are committed to comprehensive peace in Darfur. Peace is strategic, essential and the top issue on which we will all work together." VARIOUS OF CROWD DANCING, HOLDING POSTER OF AL-BASHIR Kenya's foreign minister meets with al-Bashir in an effort to resolve a stand-off touched off by a Kenyan court ruling that orders the arrest of al-Bashir if he enters Kenya. KHARTOUM, SUDAN (FILE - DECEMBER 1, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AL-BASHIR READING WRITTEN MESSAGE DELIVERED BY KENYAN DELEGATION RELATING TO KENYAN COURT ORDER TO ARREST HIM IF HE SETS FOOT IN KENYA AND HAND HIM OVER TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) IN THE HAGUE ON GENOCIDE CHARGES KENYAN MINISTER OF DEFENCE, YUSUF HAJI AND KENYAN FOREIGN MINISTER, MOSES WETANGULA AL-BASHIR CLOSING THE MESSAGE AND NODDING TOWARDS HAJI AND WETANGULA Al-Bashir fuels tensions with the South by vowing to only communicate "through guns and ammunition". HEGLIG, SUDAN (FILE - APRIL 23, 2012) (REUTERS) AL-BASHIR EXITING PLANE AND SALUTING LEADER OF MILITARY OPERATION IN HEGLIG, MAJOR GENERAL KAMAL ABDUL MAROUF, VISITING THE REGION AFTER SOUTH SUDAN'S ARMY BRIEFLY SEIZED THE HEGLIG OIL FIELD AL-BASHIR SURROUNDED BY CHEERING SUDANESE ARMED FORCES (SAF) SOLDIERS CHEERING SAF SOLDIERS STANDING ON TANK SAF SOLDIERS WAVING GUNS AND SUDANESE FLAG Al-Bashir visits South Sudan's capital Juba where he holds talks with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir. At a joint news conference in Juba, al-Bashir tells journalists Sudan has no intention of supporting any opposition rebels in South Sudan. JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN (FILE - JANUARY 6, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AL-BASHIR AND SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT SALVA KIIR SEATED FOR PHOTO OPPORTUNITY Al-Bashir, as an incumbent, casts his vote in an election boycotted by the main opposition parties. The parties boycotting the election say a clampdown on the opposition, media and civil society has created an impossible environment to run against al-Bashir. KHARTOUM, SUDAN (FILE - APRIL 13, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AL-BASHIR VOTING IN PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS, WHICH WERE BOYCOTTED BY OPPOSITION PARTIES AND WHICH HE WON WITH 94 PERCENT OF THE VOTE Al-Bashir arrives in the capital Khartoum in defiance of a South African court that said he should have been arrested, Sudan Television shows. KHARTOUM, SUDAN (FILE - JUNE 2, 2015) (REUTERS) MEMBERS AND GUESTS SEATED IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HALL FOR AL-BASHIR'S INAUGURATION CEREMONY AL-BASHIR SWEARING OATH EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ABDUL FATAH AL-SISI AND ZIMBABWEAN PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE LISTENING MEMBERS APPLAUDING Al-Bashir, visiting South Africa for an African Union summit, stands accused in an ICC arrest warrant of war crimes and crimes against humanity over atrocities committed in the Darfur conflict. He was first indicted in 2009. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (FILE - JUNE 14, 2015) (REUTERS) LEADERS GATHERED FOR GROUP PHOTOGRAPH DURING AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT AL-BASHIR TALKING TO SAHARAWI PRIME MINISTER ABDELKADER TALEB OMAR GROUP DISPERSING / SOUTH AFRICAN PRIME MINISTER JACOB ZUMA WALKING PAST AL-BASHIR Al-Bashir wanted by the ICC since 2008 on war crimes and genocide charges, leaves South Africa in defiance of a domestic court which ordered that he stay. THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS (FILE - JUNE 15, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) ICC SIGN OUTSIDE COURT Al-Bashir arrives in Khartoum to a hero's welcome after defying a South Africa court order for him to remain in the country until it rules on an application for his arrest. KHARTOUM, SUDAN (FILE - JUNE 15, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AL-BASHIR'S PLANE RETURNING HIM FROM JOHANNESBURG TO KHARTOUM, AFTER HE DEFIED A SOUTH AFRICAN COURT ORDER TO REMAIN IN THE COUNTRY UNTIL IT RULED ON THE ICC APPLICATION FOR HIS ARREST AL-BASHIR DISEMBARKING, WAVING STICK IN AIR AL-BASHIR BEING GREETED BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
  • Embargoed: 14th September 2019 12:12
  • Keywords: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Sudan Syria Bashar al-Assad Sadeq al-Mahdi
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  • Country: Sudan
  • Topics: Government/Politics
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