Ahmed Haroun
Ahmed Mohammed Haroun (also spelled
Ahmad Harun, ; born 1964) is one of five Sudanese men
wanted by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) for
war crimes and
crimes against humanity in
Darfur. Despite international pressure on the government of Sudan to surrender him to the ICC, Haroun served as Sudan's Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs until May 2009, when he was appointed to the governorship of
South Kordofan. In September 2007, he was appointed to lead an investigation into human rights violations in Darfur. In July 2013 he resigned as Governor of South Kordofan, and was reappointed by Omar al-Bashir as Governor of
North Kordofan. On 1 March 2019, President Omar al-Bashir handed over the running of the country's leading political party, the
National Congress, to him. He was arrested in April 2019 by local authorities in Sudan following
a coup which overthrew al-Bashir.
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