The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has been on an official visit to Sudan since Saturday 17 October. This is the first official contact between the authorities following the 2018 revolution and the ICC, and it is an opportunity for Khartoum and the prosecutor to concretely discuss the verdict on the crimes committed under the former leader’s regime. of the state of Omar al-Bashir.
as reported from Nairobi,
“This historic visit is proof of the overall reform of the new Sudan.” This is how Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok summed up his meeting on Sunday in Khartoum with Fatou Bensouda.
Later, in a statement, he recalled that his country’s “obligation” to achieve justice “was” not only part of its international obligations “, but also responded to” popular demands “, that is to say one of the essential requirements for the revolution in 2018.
Fatou Bensoudaa, for his part, mentioned a “double goal” for his visit. To explain, on the one hand, the “complementarity of the Court and the Sudanese judicial system in Darfur” and, on the other hand, to call for “cooperation between the Sudanese authorities in gathering information” on Ali Kosheib, Janjaweed’s Chief, now detained in The Hague after surrender to the authorities, in CAR, in early June.
To do this, she met the Minister of Justice, Darfuri Nasredine Abdelbari, then number two in the Sovereign Council, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemeti”, who confirmed that the Sudanese government was ready to cooperate with the ICC. without further details.
