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The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Ali Mohamed Ali Abdel-Rahman - known as Ali Kushayb - in February last year.

Sudanese Justice Minister Abdel Basit Sabderat said an investigation into alleged crimes committed by Ali Kushayb was now drawing to an end.

The ICC chief prosecutor also accuses Sudan's president of crimes in Darfur.

The BBC's Amber Henshaw in the capital, Khartoum, says Sudan has refused to co-operate with the ICC case and is insisting on conducting its own investigations into crimes in Darfur.

Legal experts say that Sudanese criminal law does not include charges of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity although the military law was revised last year.

The government is also lobbying hard for the UN Security Council to delay an investigation into whether President Omar al-Bashir should be charged with war crimes by the ICC.

The government has always denied reports that it had backed the Janjaweed militias accused of widespread atrocities in Darfur.

(BBC)

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