The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said that he would seek arrest warrants for war crimes in Darfur including, for the first time, actions by Sudanese rebels.

The United States has complained for months about the slow deployment of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, known as Unamid.

The United States has complained for months about the slow deployment of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, known as Unamid.

The move is widely being interpreted as a way for Sudan to improve its image abroad and try to head off the possible genocide prosecution of the country’s president.

The move is widely being interpreted as a way for Sudan to improve its image abroad and try to head off the possible genocide prosecution of the country’s president.

The Sudanese government has arrested janjaweed militia leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, charged by an international court with orchestrating mass murder in Darfur.

The possibility that President Omar Hassan al-Bashir might be indicted on charges of genocide and war crimes prompted an intense tug of war at the United Nations General Assembly.

The two hijackers who had commandeered a jetliner from the Darfur region of Sudan on Tuesday had asked for asylum in Libya, but it was not clear whether their request had been granted.

Hijackers in the Darfur region of Sudan seized a jetliner carrying nearly 100 people, including local Darfur officials, and forced it to land at an airfield in the Sahara Desert in Libya.

The deaths resulted from an assault by the government on a huge camp for displaced people in Darfur, according the witnesses and leaders at the camp.