The Sudanese Armed Forces ​have detained ​a senior Islamist ⁠official from the era of dictator Omar Al Bashir. Ahmed Haroun, chairman of Sudan's former ruling National Congress Party, has been in hiding for years. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court over ​alleged ⁠war crimes and genocide ‌in the Darfur region in the ​early 2000s. He has dismissed these charges as political.