SUDAN: The International Criminal Court at The Hague is to launch an inquiry into alleged war crimes in the Darfur region of western Sudan, the BBC reported yesterday.
The court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, is expected to announce today the details of what will be the ICC's biggest ever investigation. A special United Nations inquiry has given the ICC the names of 51 potential suspects, a BBC correspondent said. The UN says about 180,000 people have died in the two-year Darfur conflict.
It says more than two million people have been forced to leave their homes in the region.