Clooney tells of ‘bad 10 days’ after getting malaria in Sudan

HOLLYWOOD heartthrob and rights activist George Clooney contracted malaria during his recent visit to Sudan for voting there and had a “bad 10 days”, he said.

The A-list star jokingly agreed that Sudanese president Omar al-Beshir, who is wanted for war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Court (ICC), may be to blame for the mosquito bite that infected him.

“I guess the mosquito in Juba looked at me and thought I was the bar,” he quipped, according to an advance copy of excerpts of an interview with new CNN talk show host Piers Morgan.