AU countries to defy ICC's Bashir warrant
Saturday, 4 July 2009 22:30African leaders meeting at an African Union summit in Libya have said they will not implement an International Criminal Court warrant.
The decision follows the Court's issue of an arrest warrant against Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, last March.
The Sudanese president was indicted over alleged atrocities in the Darfur region.
The kidnapping of an Irish aid worker and a Ugandan colleague in Darfur yesterday was the third such incident since the warrant was issued.
Four members of the Médécins Sans Frotieres, a Frenchman, a Canadian woman, an Italian and a Sudanese were kidnapped shortly after the ICC arrest warrant but were freed a few days later.
On 4 April, a Frenchwoman and a Canadian worker were seized in southern Darfur and released three weeks later.
