Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Sunday sent an envoy to seek Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's support against legal moves over the conflict in Darfur, the state news agency JANA reported.
Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha briefed Kadhafi on the legal action undertaken by the International Criminal Court and "the serious consequences they could have on the stability of Sudan and the region," it said.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo last week asked ICC judges to issue a warrant for Beshir's arrest. He accused Sudan's leader of personally instructing his forces to annihilate three non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur, masterminding murder, torture, pillaging and the use of rape to commit genocide.
The United Nations says that up to 300,000 people have died and more than 2.2 million have fled their homes since the Darfur conflict erupted in February 2003. Sudan says 10,000 have been killed.
It began when African ethnic minority rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Khartoum regime and state-backed Arab militias, fighting for resources and power in one of the most remote and deprived places on earth.
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