KHARTOUM: Sudan has sought Interpol’s help for the arrest in Egypt of Justice and Equality Movement rebel movement leader Khalil Ibrahim, a website close to the country’s intelligence services reported.

In an interview with the Sudanese Media Center, a daily close to the secret services, Justice Minister Abdel Bassit Sabdarat said he had asked Interpol to "arrest" Ibrahim "wherever he is located" so that he can face justice.

A Sudanese special court accuses Ibrahim of masterminding an unprecedented attack by his JEM rebels on Omdurman, the twin city of the capital.

The fighting resulted in the deaths of more than 220 people and the capture of a large number of rebels. Special courts later condemned 105 to death.

President Omar Al-Bashir had said the death sentences would be quashed and that 30 percent of JEM’s militants would be freed after a ceasefire deal was signed in February in Doha, Qatar.