{"id":221946,"date":"2026-01-26T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-iccs-work-vital-for-justice-in-darfur\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:58:56","slug":"sudan-iccs-work-vital-for-justice-in-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-iccs-work-vital-for-justice-in-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: ICC&#8217;s Work Vital for Justice in Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Prosecutor Briefs UN Security Council Amid US Attacks on the Court<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">On January 19, International Criminal Court (ICC) Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/news\/statement-deputy-prosecutor-nazhat-shameem-khan-united-nations-security-council-situation-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">briefed<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/united-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0Security Council on her office&#8217;s ongoing investigation in Darfur, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Deputy Prosecutor Khan had to attend the briefing remotely after not being granted a visa to brief the Council in person in New York City. That decision came in the wake of the Trump administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/02\/07\/us-trump-authorizes-international-criminal-court-sanctions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sanctions<\/a> imposed against a number of ICC&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260087.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>Prosecutor Briefs UN Security Council Amid US Attacks on the Court On January 19, International Criminal Court (ICC) Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan briefed the United Nations\u00a0Security Council on her office&#8217;s ongoing investigation in Darfur, Sudan. Deputy Prosecutor Khan had to attend the briefing remotely after not being granted a visa to brief the Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221947,"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":[258,256,2269,26093,6852,257,254,4708,1613,6609,6100],"class_list":["post-221946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-iccs","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-vital","tag-work"],"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\/221946","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=221946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}