INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan has announced that his office wil seek arrest warrants for individuals accused of committing atrocities in Sudan’s West Darfur region.

There are accusations that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighting government forces for 19 months have carried out ethnic cleansing.

Karim Khan told the United Nations security council on Monday that crimes were being committed in Darfur “as we speak and daily” and that they were being used as a weapon of war.