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Minister: Uganda will arrest Bashir

Monitor Online "A senior cabinet minister yesterday said Sudan President Omar El Bashir faces arrest if he visits Uganda – only days after the government invited the leader to attend a top-level summit.

The government’s U-turn on Gen. Bashir, whose arrest is being sought by the International Criminal Court over charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur region in his country, came during a visit to Kampala by the ICC chief prosecutor, Mr Luis Moreno Ocampo."

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