President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Discontented young Sudanese are campaigning for change in what will be for many the first multi-party elections in their lifetime, urging the opposition to unite against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. "We're fed up!" read thousands of bright orange leaflets appearing all over the capital, in defiance of a long-standing ban on anti-government papers by the government which took power in a coup more than 20 years ago. Groups of young Sudanese, forming on the Internet and on the streets, are calling on the splintered opposition to unite at all levels of the elections, presidential and parliamentary, against the ruling National Congress ... Read Full Story

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Thursday he had asked judges to allow a formal probe of Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence with a view to trying those responsible. "I have asked the judges of the International Criminal Court authorisation to investigate the violence that followed the elections in 2007," in which about 1,500 people were killed, Luis Moreno-Ocampo told journalists in The Hague. "Our policy is to focus our investigation on those who bear the greatest responsibility, those who organised, planned and supported the attacks," he said, adding this would be "a limited number of suspects." The prosecutor said there had been ... Read Full Story

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday he has asked judges to allow a probe of the deadly violence that followed Kenya's 2007 polls as the masterminds had evaded justice at home. "I have asked the judges of the International Criminal Court authorisation to investigate the violence that followed the elections in 2007," in which about 1,500 people were killed, Luis Moreno-Ocampo told journalists in The Hague. "Our policy is to focus our investigation on those who bear the greatest responsibility, those who organised, planned and supported the attacks," he said, adding there would be "a limited number of suspects." The ... Read Full Story

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Thursday he had asked judges to allow a formal probe of Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence with a view to putting those responsible on trial. "I have asked the judges of the International Criminal Court authorisation to investigate the violence that followed the elections in 2007," Luis Moreno-Ocampo told journalists in The Hague. He had been conducting a preliminary investigation since February last year of the violence that followed presidential polls held on December 27, 2007 after opposition chief Raila Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of voter fraud. Some 1,500 people were killed and 300,000 displaced in ... Read Full Story

Two Congolese militiamen pleaded not guilty on Tuesday when they were accused of planning to wipe out an entire village as their men killed civilians, raped women and enslaved child soldiers. "Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui are responsible for some of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community," chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told judges of the International Criminal Court as the trial opened. "They used children as soldiers, they killed more than 200 civilians in a few hours, they raped women; girls and the elderly, they looted the entire village and they transformed women into sex slaves." Katanga, 31, and ... Read Full Story