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The Omar Al-Bashir Indictement:
the ICC & the Darfur Crisis

by

Dr Gibreil Ibrahim Mohamed Fediel*, Economic Advisor to the Justice and Equality Movement, Sudan


Dr Khalid AlMubarak**, Media Councillor, Sudan Embassy

After three years of investigations, the ICC concluded that a genocide is happening in court and indicted the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir. The panellists will discuss the latest developments in the Darfur Crisis and the impact of the indictment in Sudan, each giving a different perspective. Will things get bloodier and peace totally escape Darfur as the government threatens more violence if Bashir is indicted?

Date: Tuesday, 12th August 2008
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, W1H 4LP

*Dr Fediel completed his Bsc in Business Administration in University of Khartoum in 1979.  He obtained a Master and PhD in Economics in Meiji Unversity, Japan in 1987. Since then he worked as a lecturer of Economics at Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Qasim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and then University of Khartoum . From 2005, he has been an advisor to the Justice and Equality Movement on Sudan .


** Dr Khalid AlMubarak studied in Sudan, Germany and the UK . He has taught literature in Sudan , Kuwait . He was an elected member of the political bureau of the DOP party in Sudan.He is now independent. He resigned from the communist party during post graduate studies in Bristol . Joined the exiled opposition from 1990 to 2003/5 when the comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed . He became part of the National Unity Government and was appointed Media Counsellor in 06. Before that he taught at the Universiy of Khartoum Faculty of Arts. He is a columnist and well known playwright

Dinner and Refreshments will be served

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