Sudan’s ambassador to the United Nations has gone on the attack to deflect multiple charges against his government. Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad told CNN (programme will air 9 December) that his country will never hand over its president, Omar al-Bashir, to the International Criminal Court  in The Hague where he is accused of war crimes. The ambassador lashes out in the TV interview at other criticisms of his country, which range from the opposition party saying it is corrupt to some US senators calling for an investigation into whether the country has an ongoing genocide. Sudan’s civil war nominally ended in 2005, but the number of deaths from violence in Darfur as well as other areas remains high. The ambassador 23 November called for UN peacekeepers to leave his country, following a UN report and criticism from Ban Ki-moon. The fighting in Darfur is over, according to the ambassador, but Aljazeera reports that concerns are growing over elections in April 2010.

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