Sudan: wanted Sudanese president invited to attend summit on refugees

The Sudanese government has dispatched two junior ministers to attend the AU heads of state summit on refugees, returnees and internally-displaced persons, Sudan state media reported yesterday.

Sudan’s official news agency, SUNA, said state minister at the interior ministry, Abbas Goma’a, and the refugee commissioner, Mohamed Ahmed Al-Agbash, will represent Sudan at the summit.

A new controversy erupted last week after President Yoweri Museveni said he had invited Sudanese president Omar el-Bashir to attend the summit.

Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity he allegedly committed in the western Darfur region.