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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has arrived in Zimbabwe for a regional economic summit, state radio reported Sunday.
Al-Bashir, the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the international human rights court, paid a courtesy call late Saturday on President Robert Mugabe, host of the two day Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa meeting in the northwestern resort town of Victoria Falls, the radio said.
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