CAIRO, Egypt - Senior Arab diplomats will try and forge a united response to the genocide charges brought against Sudan's president for his government's actions in Darfur.
A large Sudanese delegation was in Cairo on Friday to prepare for a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers. The gathering on Saturday was called to discuss the 10 charges filed by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court against President Omar al-Bashir.
The charges are for what the U.N. has described as a campaign of extermination against three Darfur tribes that it says has claimed 300,000 lives and driven 2.5 million people from their homes. A three-judge panel from the court, or ICC, is expected to take two to three months to decide on an arrest warrant.
The 22-nation league is loathe to see what it regards as the humiliation of an Arab leader, particularly by a court that some accuse of acting at the behest of the United States