A defiant President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir holds up the new and signed electoral law which was approved by parliament. This is the first public appearance by the president since being named today as a war crimes suspect by the International Criminal Court. Observers believe that Sudan would break up if Bashir goes. An internally displaced Sudanese girl carrying her brother in Al-Sereif camp, near Nyala in Sudan's southern Darfur. (photos: AFP) parent page (17 - 23 July 2008, issue #906) |