Come on sift, this should be #1.

Omar Al-Bashir has an international arrest warrant on his head after having been convicted of committing war crimes in Darfur. Several of his top generals have also been convicted. One of them was even on video during border fighting telling his forces to take no prisoners.

This is important news people!

Still languishing unsifted?

To be fair to the North, the South DID seize Heiglig and the international community had defined that as part of the north and has condemned the act. I'd propose that both the North and South should respect the will of international community.

The south should offer to return Heiglig in respect of the international community, at the same time as the north respects the international community by turning over all of the convicted war criminals they are employing, Omar Al-Bashir included. Everyone wins!

Of course the reality is gonna be that neither the South or North care what the international community says because it's not likely to do more than talk. This is going to become a re-opening of the bloody civil war that has already killed about 2 million people. And it is happening right now, today, while the sift can't find even find the will to upvote this . We are part of the problem.

South Sudan has announced a withdrawal

>> ^longde:

South Sudan has announced a withdrawal


Thanks for both the update and the video Longde. Here's a few lines from Al Jazeera's coverage of recent changes there:

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has said his troops have defeated South Sudanese forces who occupied his country's main oilfield, but added that the battle was not over.

"They started the fighting and we will announce when it will end, and our advance will never stop," Bashir told a rally attended by thousands in Khartoum on Friday.

He dismissed a statement by his southern counterpart Salva Kiir that the troops which had invaded Heglig - which accounts for about 50 per cent of Sudan's oil - had withdrawn.

"There is no withdrawal. We beat them by force ... Until now, their people are running," Bashir, wearing an olive army uniform, said at military headquarters.