 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Sudan inhengo inoshanda yemasangano ese eAfrica akakodzera uye inhengo yeCharter yeSangano reAfrican Unity OAU, rakagadzwa muna 1963 uye rine dzimbahwe muAddis Ababa. Mukati menguva yaro yakawanda senhengo yeOAU, yakashandisa kuva nhengo kwayo kuchengeta OAU iri kunze kwehondo yevagari vemo. Kunyange zvakadaro, muna 1994, OAU yakarayira kuti kurukurirano dzokupedza hondo yavagari vemo dziitwe. Sudan yakaramba ichizivisa kuvapo kwayo muOAU uye yakaramba ichidaro muforamu yakatevera, African Union AU, yakasikwa muna 2002. Mukupesana nehurongwa hwayo hwekuchengetedza OAU kunze kwehondo muSouth, Sudan yakagamuchira mauto e8 000 eAU muDarfur ine matambudziko ona Hondo muDarfur, ichigumisa kuti zvaive nani kuva neAU yekuchengetedza runyararo pane imwe kubva kuUnited Nations. Zvisinei, zvose zviri zviviri Sudan yakadzora huwandu hwemauto eAU uye yakaita kuti basa ravo rive rokutarisa mamiriro ezvinhu pane kuti vaite basa rakasimba rekuchengetedza runyararo. Pakati pa2007, al-Bashir pakupedzisira akabvuma kubvumira mauto eUN kubatana neAU kuchengetedza runyararo muDarfur. Dambudziko riri muDarfur rakatadzisa Sudan kutora mukana wayo muna 2006 kutora hutungamiri hweAU; nhengo zhinji dzeAU dzaida kuti Sudan iite fambiro mberi mukumisa kunetsana kweDarfur. Kupomerwa kwakazoitwa neInternational Criminal Court kwakawedzera kuomesa mamiriro ezvinhu aAl-Bashir, uye AU yakaramba ichipfuura zita rake pakusarudza sachigaro. 