Sudan’s Bashir whereabouts unknown after associate’s prison escape

DUBAI (Reuters) – The whereabouts of former Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir came into question on Wednesday after a former minister in his government, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, escaped from the same Khartoum prison. Ahmed Haroun said that he and other former officials of Bashir’s government had left Kober prison and would take responsibility for their own protection, in a statement aired on Sudan’s Tayba TV on Tuesday. Fighting flared anew in Sudan late on Tuesday despite a ceasefire declaration by th...