The first ever conference of Africa's chief and supreme courts judges kicked off in Sudan's capital of Khartoum today with the participation of 34 countries in addition to representatives of India, China and Indonesia. Saudi ambassador to Sudan Ali bin Hasan Jaafar and a number of senior Sudanese officials and ambassadors also took part of the event. Addressing the opening ceremony, president Omar Hasan Al-Bashier called for developing an African judicial and justice environment, benefiting from continent's norms, traditions and values. He lashed out at the International Criminal Tribunal as a colonial tool serving western political agenda. He also called for an alternative African mechanism for solving regional disputes and combating money laundering, terrorism, extremism and illegal migration.
