Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Norway is a world leader when it comes to renewable power,

but its fabulous wealth has come from, still comes from, selling North Sea oil.

A renewables startup scene is starting up,

but the country is wrestling with the shifting economics of energy.

And even more than elsewhere in America, people in Los Angeles love to travel by car.

The city is trying to coax Angelinos onto public transport, beefing up its infrastructure.

But people seem happier to pay for those works than to take a bus to work.

First up though.

Omar Al-Bashir, the former president of Sudan, has long been the number one target of the International Criminal Court or ICC.

It's more than ten years since he was indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity,

and genocide, mainly in the country's western region of Darfur.

But the ICC has had no power to arrest him.

So, as with others indicted by the court, he's not been brought to justice.

In fact, Mr. Bashir has traveled freely across the African continent in full view of the court.

That has damaged its reputation and raised questions about its potency.

But following the uprising last year in which Mr. Bashir was deposed,

he now languishes in a Sudanese jail, and the ICC it seems is closing in on its man.

General Al-Bashir, he seized power in a coup in 1989 in a self-proclaimed Islamic revolution.

Richard Cockett is a senior editor at the economist and author of Sudan, Darfur, and the failure of an African state.

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