(SomaliNet) Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir denies that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur. In July, the International Criminal Court in The Hague indicted Omar al-Bashir on genocide and war crimes charges. Prosecutors say militias unleashed by his government have killed some 300,000 ethnic Africans. More than 2.5-million have been displaced. Al-Bashir says those numbers are inflated. "Genocide like the International Criminal Court claims is nonexistent."
He was speaking at a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey, during his first trip abroad since the indictment.