She stressed her country's desire to "bring justice to the victims." Sudanese Foreign Minister Maryam Sadiq Al-Mahdi announced the decision of the Council of Ministers to

extradite President Omar Al-Bashir and two of his associates wanted in the Darfur file to the International Criminal Court. In 2009, the Hague Court issued an arrest warrant against Al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 2003 conflict, during which more than 300,000 people were killed.

The Minister emphasized her country's cooperation with the Court "to bring justice to the victims of the Darfur war."

The new prosecutor of The Hague Court, who took office in June, arrived in the Sudan on Monday.

A week ago, the Sudanese Council of Ministers had ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which was seen as a new step towards bringing Bashir before international justice.

Al-Bashir is currently in the K prison in the Sudanese capital. He was removed and suspended in April 2019 after a massive popular protest against him.

The International Criminal Court also issued arrest warrants against two of his associates, Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein and Ahmed Harun, who are also detained in K Prison. In early May, Harun had requested that he be referred to the International Criminal Court following his appearance before a governmental commission of inquiry.

For its part, the Transitional Sovereignty Council, the highest authority in the Sudan, composed of civilians and military personnel with the task of managing the country's transition period, promised, upon its assumption of power in February 2020, that Al - Bashir would appear before the International Criminal Court.

The isolated Sudanese president is being tried in his country's judiciary for another charge of carrying out a coup d'état against the regime in June 1989.