{"id":239548,"date":"2026-07-26T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-icc-trial-chamber-terminates-case-for-sudan-war-crimes-against-former-jem-commander-abdallah-banda-without-prejudice\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:36:57","slug":"sudan-icc-trial-chamber-terminates-case-for-sudan-war-crimes-against-former-jem-commander-abdallah-banda-without-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-icc-trial-chamber-terminates-case-for-sudan-war-crimes-against-former-jem-commander-abdallah-banda-without-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: ICC Trial Chamber Terminates Case for Sudan War Crimes Against Former JEM Commander Abdallah Banda &#8216;Without Prejudice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"81\">The Hague \u2014 <em>Trial Chamber IV of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, has terminated the proceedings against the former commander of Sudan&#8217;s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) &#8216;Collective Leadership&#8217; faction, Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, and thereby vacated the arrest warrant against him. The Chamber &#8216;deplores&#8217; the position taken by the Prosecution, and emphasised that &#8220;this determination is without prejudice to any case that could be brought against Mr Banda&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230890.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>The Hague \u2014 Trial Chamber IV of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, has terminated the proceedings against the former commander of Sudan&#8217;s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) &#8216;Collective Leadership&#8217; faction, Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, and thereby vacated the arrest warrant against him. The Chamber &#8216;deplores&#8217; the position taken by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[40971,258,256,8127,6683,11730,6771,1922,599,16021,257,40920,254,4708,1613,24454,6564,6618],"class_list":["post-239548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-abdallah","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banda","tag-case","tag-chamber","tag-commander","tag-crimes","tag-icc","tag-jem","tag-news","tag-prejudice","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-terminates","tag-trial","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239548","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=239548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}