{"id":216733,"date":"2025-12-15T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-icc-sentences-former-sudanese-militia-leader-to-20-years\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:27:19","slug":"sudan-icc-sentences-former-sudanese-militia-leader-to-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-icc-sentences-former-sudanese-militia-leader-to-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: ICC Sentences Former Sudanese Militia Leader to 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Governments Should Back ICC, Pursue Additional Accountability Efforts<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"82\">Last week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/international-justice\/international-criminal-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Criminal Court<\/a> (ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/news\/ali-muhammad-ali-abd-al-rahman-ali-kushayb-sentenced-20-years-imprisonment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/first-icc-trial-darfur-crimes-ali-mohammed-ali-known-ali-kosheib-or-kushayb#WhoisAli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kosheib)<\/a>, a former leader of Sudan&#8217;s &#8220;Janjaweed&#8221; militias, to 20 years in prison. It follows his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/10\/06\/darfur-icc-convicts-former-janjaweed-militia-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conviction<\/a> in October for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan<\/a>&#8216;s Darfur region between 2003-2004. The long-awaited, landmark sentence is an important moment for victims and provides much needed hope amid&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512150120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments Should Back ICC, Pursue Additional Accountability Efforts Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kosheib), a former leader of Sudan&#8217;s &#8220;Janjaweed&#8221; militias, to 20 years in prison. It follows his conviction in October for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sudan&#8216;s Darfur region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":216734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,599,7079,460,257,9735,254,4708,1613,7296,5114],"class_list":["post-216733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-icc","tag-leader","tag-militia","tag-news","tag-sentences","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}