Darfur rebel leader Bahar Idriss Abu Garda will not have to stand trial in The Hague for the killing of 12 African Union peacekeepers in 2007.

The International Criminal Court says there is not enough evidence to charge him with responsibility for the attack on the AU peacekeeping force in Darfur in western Sudan.
 

Mr Abu Garda is the first Sudanese suspect to surrender voluntarily to the ICC in The Hague. He said he wanted to prove his innocence. ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo is to appeal against the decision not to bring the United Resistance Front leader to trial.