This morning the International Criminal court in the Hague is deciding whether to charge the current Sudanese president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, with genocide. The ICC had already issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir in March 2009 for war crimes in Darfur, so what would these more serious charges mean?
We speak to BBC correspondent James Copnall, who is in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum and has been getting local reactions to the ICC announcement.