In 2017, African leaders passed a nonbinding resolution against the International Criminal Court for its bias on Africa. What should African states make of John Bolton’s blistering attack on the ICC? BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN When US National Security Advisor John “The Walrus” Bolton threatened the International Criminal Court with US Sanctions, many of us […]
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Tribunal has not lived up to hopes of international community, Moscow says, day after ICC report on Crimea annexation. By TesfaNews, President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The President instructed Russia’s foreign ministry to notify the […]
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By Matthew Lee | for Associated Press, The U.S. delegation to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration walked out of Thursday’s ceremony in protest against his disparaging comments about an international war crimes tribunal and the presence of Sudan’s leader, whom the court has indicted, the State Department said.
Continue ReadingWill the election of an ICC indicted Kenyan president defines President Barack Obama in Africa or will President Barack Obama use the election of Kenyatta to define his human rights policy in Africa? By Thomas C Mountain, That the fix was in was confirmed when the Godfather himself, son of a Kenyan, Barack Obama, called Uhuru […]
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