Omar al-Bashir

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir attends a ceremony, which included a patriotic song to which those present waved their traditional sticks in the air and paraded past him, celebrating the approval of an election law that sets the guidelines for a key vote next year, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan Monday, July 14, 2008. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges Monday against the Sudanese President, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation, but Sudan rejected the charges and the court’s jurisdiction, and one top lawmaker said his government could no longer guarantee the safety of United Nations staff in the troubled region. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)