The United States announced on Monday that it was offering up to 5 million dollars for the arrest of a former aide to the deposed President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, accused of war crimes in Darfur, Ednews reports referring to Le Figaro.
The notice concerns Ahmed Haroun, one of his former aides, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region of western Sudan between 2003 and 2004, according to the US State Department.
"It is crucial that Ahmed Haroun be found and brought before the ICC to face the charges against him," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. The spokesman added that "there is a clear and direct link between the impunity for abuses committed under the Bashir regime, including those of which Ahmed Haroun is accused, and the violence in Darfur today".
