{"id":10515,"date":"2012-05-05T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-1-malawi-moves-to-block-visit-by-sudans-wanted-bashir\/"},"modified":"2012-05-05T08:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:36:52","slug":"update-1-malawi-moves-to-block-visit-by-sudans-wanted-bashir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-malawi-moves-to-block-visit-by-sudans-wanted-bashir\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Malawi moves to block visit by Sudan&#8217;s wanted Bashir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* President asks African Union to stop Bashir attending<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sudan leader wanted by international court<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Malawi seeks to restore overseas aid<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sudan says Malawi can not block visit<\/p>\n<p> (Adds Sudanese government reaction)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mabvuto Banda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LILONGWE, May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Malawi President Joyce Banda<br \/>\nsaid on Friday she had asked the African Union to prevent<br \/>\nSudan&#8217;s wanted leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir from attending a<br \/>\nsummit in her country, saying his visit would have<br \/>\n&#8220;implications&#8221; for the economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest<br \/>\nwarrants for Sudan&#8217;s President Bashir to face charges of<br \/>\nmasterminding genocide and other war crimes during his nation&#8217;s<br \/>\nDarfur conflict.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malawi angered international donors when it played host to<br \/>\nBashir last year &#8211; ICC members countries like Malawi are<br \/>\nsupposed to arrest people wanted by the global court.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Banda, who became president last month with promises to<br \/>\nrestore relations with donors, said on Friday she had asked the<br \/>\nAfrican Union not to invite Bashir to the African heads of state<br \/>\nsummit in her country in July.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* President asks African Union to stop Bashir attending * Sudan leader wanted by international court * Malawi seeks to restore overseas aid * Sudan says Malawi can not block visit (Adds Sudanese government reaction) By Mabvuto Banda LILONGWE, May 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Malawi President Joyce Banda said on Friday she had asked the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}