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Sudan: Government Expels Kenyan Ambassador to Protest Arrest Warrant Against al-Bashir

Khartoum — Sudan's foreign ministry ordered the Kenyan ambassador in Khartoum to leave the country in 72 hours late on Monday in response to a Kenyan court's issuance of an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

"The Kenyan ambassador has been notified to leave in 72 hours while the Sudanese ambassador in Nairobi has been asked to return to Khartoum," said Al-Obaid Ahmed Mirawih, spokesman of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Judge Nicholas Ombija of Kenya's Supreme Court ordered Monday the arrest of al-Bashir in response to a recommendation by the Kenyan chapter of the International Commission of Jurists.

Ombija said that Kenya was obliged to arrest al-Bashir since it was a signatory of the ICC Rome Statute which stipulates that any signatory country should abide by arrest warrants issued by the ICC.

"I grant the orders sought and direct the minister of internal security to arrest President Bashir should he set foot in Kenya in future," Ombija was reported to have said.

The ICC Rome Statute was established in 2002. But like many African countries, Kenya used to refuse to implement ICC's 2009 arrest warrant against al-Bashir.

In August 2010, the Sudanese president visited Nairobi to participate in the endorsement of Kenya's new constitution despite the warrant. Kenyan officials then said they were committed to the African Union resolutions in this respect.

Since the ICC issued the arrest warrant against him in March 2009, al-Bashir has visited Chad, Malawi and Kenya.

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  • ras sideeq
    Nov 29 2011, 15:47

    I MUST ADMIT THOUGH DISTURBED ABOUT BASHIRS BEHAVIOUR IN KODOFAM AND BLUE NILE STATE I FIND IT INCREDIBLE THAT KENYA WANTS TO DISTRESS THE FRAGILE AFRICAN UNI0ON AT THIS STAGE. WHAT MUST BE KEPT IN MIND FOR JURORS IN AFRICA WHEN THESE DESICIONS ARE BEING MADE THESE THINGS SHOULD BE THE HANDLING OF THE AFRICAN UNION..AFRICA IS BEING UNDERMINED BY THE WEST IN A BIG WAY. THEY ARE UNDERMINING AFRICAN CURRENCIES THEY ARE RATCHETTING UP CONFLICTS IN AFRICA. THE FRENCH HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF COTEd' IVOIRE AND HAVE SOLDIERS THRUOUT THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION LONGSIDE THE US. THEY ARE DISTABLISING MALIS BORDERS. THE ICC IS A HAND OF IMP[ERIAL DOMINATION AND HEGEMONY. WE MUST LOOK AT WHATS TAKING PLACE IN AFRICA WE MUST NOT BE SO QUICK TO DISMISS OUR BROTHERS AS THE WRONG ONES. WE NEED A MORE COMPREHENSIVE WAY OF DELIVERING JUSTICE FOR AFRICANS. THE IDEA THAT WHITES ARE MORE SENSITVE TO AFRICAN NEEDS IS ABSOLOUTELY RIDICULOUS. THESE PEOPLE ARE WAR MONGERING CALLOUS INSENSITIVE TO ANY BLACK NEEDS AT THE MOMENT. IF I MIGHT REMIND YOU AT THE DISGUSTING WAY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OVER THREW TWO LEGAL AND SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENST IN AFRICA THIS WAS DONE WITH MALICE AND ABERATION VERY DIABOLICAL AND MOST CYNICAL. WHEN WE SEE THE AMMOUNTS OF TRAUMA IT COST TO AFRICAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN IT SUPERCEDES ANY WRONG DOING THAT IS ALLEGED BY THE ICC. THE THE ICC AND THEIR MILTARY WING MURDERS IN THE 100,000 S. ANOTHER ANOMALY IS THE FACT THAT THEIR ARE NO WESTERN SIGNATORIES TO THIS INTERNATIONAL ROME STATUTE. WHY HAVE YOU NOT CONDEMED ISRAEL FOR THERI NAZIISM IN PALESTINE WHY ARE THEY FREE TO MURDER AND ASSASSINATE WORLD WIDE. WHERE DOES AMERICA THE UK THE FRENCH AND NAZIS GET THEIR AUTHORITY FROM WHO ARE THEY ? THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT LORDS OF THE PLANET NOR ARE THEY IN ANY AY GODS. SHOULD YOU QUESTION THEIR BEHAVIOURS THEY WOULD APPEAR MUCH MORE LIKE SATAN AND HIS DEVILS DICIPLES. TODAY AFRICA NEEDS TO BE MORE INDEPENDENT AND FOSTER JUSTICE FOR THE CONTINENT AND IT SHOULD BE THOSE WHO CAN BE RIGHTEOUSS THOSE WHO HAVE VERY STRONG MORALITY AND THESE LAWS MUST BE THESE THAT CAN BE SEEN AND COMPRHENDED BY ALL THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA WHETER THEY ARE ARABIC FRENCH SWAHILI ZULU OR WHOM SO EVER THE PERSON IS THESE LAWS MUST BE COMPREHENDABLE AND FAR FROM ABSTRACT. AFRICA NEEDS BOLD LEADERSHIP VISIONARY LEADERS WE DO NOT NEED THOSE WHO ARE THE TOOLS AND PUPPETS OF WESTEREN PROPOGANDA. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE INJUSTICE THAT IRAN WHOM IS MORE MORAL AND LESS INCLINED TO MURDERING PEOPLE OR ATTACKING PEOPLE WE MUST REALLY EXAMINE OUR OWN MORAL CODES. THE DISENFRANCHISEMENTY OF PEOPLE AROUND RTHE GLOBE DOES NOT SEEM TO AFFECT THE WEST IN ANY WAY. THEY ARE DETERMINED TO RULE THE EARTH WHICH IF NOT BY COERCION AND FRAUD THEN BY WARFARE AND MURDER. THIS IS NOT THE DESIGNS OF HONEST OR SENSITIVE PEOPLE. THEY HAVE BEEN IN AFGHANISTAN FOR OVER A DECADE THEY HAVE SINCE TOPPLING THE TALIBAN WHICH UNDER THEIR LEADERSHIP HEROIN AND THE POPPY PLANT WAS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH . THE WEST REPELLED THESE LAWS AND AHVE SINCE THEN BECOME THE EARTHS NUMBERONE PROVIDER OF HEROIN ON THE PLANET. THEY ALSOM HAVE 70 BASES IN COLOMBIA YET COLOMBIA REMAINS THE NUMBER1 DISTRIBUTER OF COCAINE ON THE PLANET. WHEN IT COMES TO ALCOHOL CIGARETTES THEY ARE THE BIGGEST DISTRIBUTERS AND MANUFACTURERES OF THESE DRUGS. WHERE IS THE MORALITY. WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK LIVES THEY ARE INSIGNIFICANT TO THE WEST. IN THE WEST THE POPULATIONS THAT FILL THEIR PRISONS ARE THOSE OF BLACK AND BROWN PURSUASION. THEY GET THE MOST TIME FROM YOUNGER AGES THEY ARE UNJUST TOWARDS THEM AND THEY PROPOGATE THESE ACTIONS ABROAD. WHEN GADDAFI LED LIBYA THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUP FROM AROUND THE PLANET WHO' SE LIVES WERE SAVED FROM GOING TO THE WEST WHERE THE INEVITABLE PLACE FOR THEM WOULD BE SOME SORT OF IMPRISONMENT. THOSE WHO ARE IN LIBYA TODAY EVEN THOSE OF NATURAL LIBYAN ANCESTORY FROM ANTIQUITY ARE IN PRISON A PRACTISE OF THE WEST . AMAZINGLY MOST ARBS ARE OF BLACK EHNICITY . THOSE IN THE SO CALLED MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA DEFINITELY ARE OF BLACK ORIGINS; EYT WE FIND IT SO EASY TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST OUR SELVES. WHAT I LIKE TO CALL THIS IS SELF HATE. AFRICANS NEED TO STEP UP THEIR PROTOCOLS. THE DISCUSSION OF SURRENDERING BLACKS TO FOREIGN LANDS TO FOREIGN JUDGES IS THE SAME THINGS THAT WERE PARCTISED DURING THE SLAVE TRADE. THIS BEHAVIOUR MUST BE ABOLISHED FROM AFRICA FULL STOP. YOU YOURSELVES CAN NOT TRY THE SOUTH AFRICANS IN THE HAGUE FOR WAR CRIMES OR ANY MISDEED AGINST BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS. YOU YOURSELVES CAN NOT TRYANY OF THOSE NAZI ZIONIST FOR PALESTINIAN ATTROCITIES. DURING THE REQUEST FROM PALESTINE TO BE INDEPENDENT AND FRE AS EVERY HUMAN BEING SHOULD BE THE ZIONIST MADE A MOCKERY OF THE OCCASION AS THEY CONTINUE TO MURDER WITH IMPUNITY . WE NOW SEE THE OPEN COLLABERATION OF THE US THE UK ANDTHE FRENCH DISREGARDING INTERNATIONAL LAWS LONGSIDE ISRAEL WHILE EXPECTING THE WIDER UNIVERSAL COMMUNITY TO OBEY THEIR WISHES. THEY ARE NOT GODS!!!! FAR FROM IT. THEY ARE MURDERERS THEY ARE KIDNAPERS TORTURERS AND THE MOST IMMORAL ON THE PLANET. WHEN WE HAVE A INEXPERIENCED YOUNG IN THE TOOTH LITTLE BWOY SPEAKING IREEVERENTLY TO HEADS OF STATES FORM THE BLACK WORLD . WHEN HE PATRONISINGLY SPEAKS OF CUTTING AID IF WE DO NOT ADHERE TO HIS IMMORALITY HIS CORRUPTION HIS ABOMINATION THEN YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY FEEL ABOUT YOU. THERE CAN NEVER BE JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS TYPE OF IMMORALITY.WHEN YOU TAKE LOOK AT THE ELDERS FROM KENYA WHO ARE BEING IDSMISSED IN THE UK; THEN YOU KNOW THEY DO NOT THINK OF JUSTICE THEY THINK OF JUST US".THIS DECEMBER MANY WILL BE CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS WHAT IS THIS ABOUT IT SURELY IS NOT ABOUT YOUR HERITAGE OR ANY THING TO DO WITH CHRIST. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PAGAN HOLIDAY YET WE AS BLACK EMBRACE IT AS IF IT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HISTORY OR TRUTH. MY REASONING IS THIS YOU SEEM TO STILL EMBRACE VERYTHING WESTERN AS IF YOU CAN NOT SEE THEIR INIQUITIES THEIR ABOMINATIONS THEIR SINS . THEY CONTINUE TO DECEIVE YOU AND YOU WONT OPEN YOUR EYES. WHATEVER THAT IS TAKING PLACE IN AFRICA MUST BE SORTED BY AFRICAN MINDS . THIS MEANS THAT WHATEVER IS GOING ON WHAT EVER COMES WHAT MAY, THIS IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AN DYOU MUST HANDLE IT LIKE BIG GROWN UPS. MATURITY IS WORD THAT MEANS INDEPENDENT AND ABLE TO DO FOR SELF. THIS FATHER FIGURE THAT IS THE WHITE MAN MUST BE ABOLISHED HE IS NOT YOUR FATHER HE IS NOT YOUR FAMILY. HE DOES NOT LIKE YOU HE PATRONISES YOU HE SPEAKS DOWN TO YOU AND HE HAS DENIED YOU FOR CENTURIES. WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO EDUCATE YOURSELVES FORM COMMUNITIES THAT VOTES FOR LEADERS WHO WILL ABIDE BY YOUR VOTES; THEY MUST IMPLIMENY WHAT IT IS THAT YOU ARE EXPECTING OF THEM. IF THERE SHOULD BE COURTS OF JSUTICES THAT ARE VOTED IN OFFICE AND NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THESTATUS QUO THEN SO BE IT. AFRICA NEEDS A DISTINGUISHED JUDICIARY THOSE OF STRONG MORAL FIBRE.ANOTHER THING AFRICA MUST EMBRACE THE WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN OR BETTER SAID THE SOUTH AFRICAN METHODS OF HEALING TRUTH AND RECONCILLIATION THIS IS IN FACT A VERY RIGHTEOUSS ANDLESS JUDGEMENTAL WAY OF MOVING FORWARD. WHY SHOULD THIS OBLY BE APLLICABLE TO WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA. WHY ISNT THIS WIDE SPREAD WORLD WIDE OR MOST DEFINITELY IN AFRICA.; AFRICA NEEDS TO ILLIMINATE CONFLICT AND STRIFE. THE RECONCILLIATION MECHANISM WOULD HAVE WORKED WONDERFULLY IN LIBYA AND IVORY COAST. THIS IS NEEDED IN SUDAN ALL OF SUDAN WE MUST ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE US INTENT IN DISMANTLING SUDAN FOR THEIR PURPOSES. THE PEOPLES OF THE REGIONS THAT ARE SEEKING THIS SEPERATION ARE RICH BUT ALSO THEY ARE POOR AND VERY UNEDUCATED. SO THEY ARE THERETO EXPLOIT AND PLUNDER,.. THE LESS EDUCATED THE AFRICAN IS THE MORE OPEN HE OR SHE IS TO ABUSE THIS IS WHY THEY REFUSED TO EDUCATE AFRICA AND FORCED THEM TO PRAY TO THEM AS THEIR GOD.ILLITERACY IS RAMPANMT IN AFRICA . IF THE GOVERNMENST OF AFRICA EVER WANT TO SEE THE RENASCIENCE OF THIS GLORIOUS CONTINENT THEN THEY BETTER SHAPE UP AND THINK OF THE PEOPLE FIRST THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE. THEY NEED EDUCATION WITHOUT THE BRAIN WASHING. MATHEMATICS WAS PRACTISED IN AFRICA BY EAST AFRICANS BEFORE WHITE CIVILZATION WAS EVEN A CONCEPT