The International Criminal Court, ICC, said it had issued an arrest warrant for a Central African Republic rebel leader for war crimes and crimes against humanity during civil strife in 2013.
Nourredine Adam, head of an armed faction of former rebels from the mainly Muslim Seleka group, is wanted over crimes allegedly committed while he was security minister at the time.
He is wanted for crimes including torture, imprisonment, persecution, enforced disappearance and cruel treatment at detention centres run by
the then-ruling regime, prosecutors said.
The warrant was originally issued under seal in January 2019 but ICC judges had now ordered it to be unsealed.
One of the world’s poorest nations, the Central African Republic was plunged into a bloody civil war after a coup in 2013 and while the violence has decreased over the past three years, armed groups still control large swathes of the country.
