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]]> Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, who’s presence has turned the 25th African Union summit in Sandton on its head is not long for South Africa.
He’s expected to leave overnight despite the court ruling obliging him to stay until Judge Hans Fabricius rules whether South African authorities should meet their legal obligations and arrest him in terms of two International Criminal Court warrants still in force against him for alleged genocide in Darfur.

Highly placed South African sources are aware there will be consequences if Omar Al Bashir defies a court order by leaving.
But they say the ramifications of having to arrest the Sudanese President, if indeed the court rules this way, are far greater.
The degree to which Al Bashir surprised his African peers by arriving here was illustrated at lunch after today’s closed session where no place had been set for him.
He left with his entourage but returned to be welcomed by name by AU Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.

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