In July 2008 Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced his intention to prosecute President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for human rights violations related to the conflict in that country's Darfur region. Less than a

The Lord's Resistance Army rebels have abducted 24 people and killed one in a remote corner of Central African Republic, 850km east of the capital Bangui, the army said yesterday.