Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria after human rights lawyers and civil rights activists demanded his arrest, a Sudanese diplomat has said.
Al-Bashir has been indicted for genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
The unnamed diplomatsaid that al-Bashir left at 3pm local time on Monday, less than 24 hours after he arrived and in the middle of a two-day summit.
The diplomat denied that al-Bashir's hasty departure was related to demands for his arrest. Human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit to try to compel the government to detain him and surrender him to the International Criminal Court for trial.
Nigeria's government said it followed an African Union instruction that its 53 member states should not arrest al-Bashir.
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