{"id":249773,"date":"2026-11-11T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-sudan-detains-ex-ruling-party-head-wanted-by-icc\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:00:10","slug":"east-africa-sudan-detains-ex-ruling-party-head-wanted-by-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-sudan-detains-ex-ruling-party-head-wanted-by-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Sudan Detains Ex-Ruling Party Head Wanted By ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Sudan&#8217;s army has detained a former senior Islamist official from ousted strongman Omar al-Bashir&#8217;s era who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, officials from his party said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Ahmed Haroun, who chairs Sudan&#8217;s former ruling National Congress Party, has been hiding for years and is wanted by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes \u2060and genocide in the Darfur region in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">He has dismissed the charges as political.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a televised podcast interview on Saturday,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110098.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Sudan&#8217;s army has detained a former senior Islamist official from ousted strongman Omar al-Bashir&#8217;s era who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, officials from his party said. Ahmed Haroun, who chairs Sudan&#8217;s former ruling National Congress Party, has been hiding for years and is wanted by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249774,"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":[258,256,11080,6719,55817,599,257,7024,254,4708,1613,7919],"class_list":["post-249773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-detains","tag-east","tag-exruling","tag-icc","tag-news","tag-party","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-wanted"],"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\/249773","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=249773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}