Human Security Centre Human Rights and International Security Research

The ongoing fighting has largely escaped attention from western media up until recently, but the scale of devastation is staggering and cannot continue to be ignored.

On Saturday 12th October, the African Union held an extraordinary session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to consider Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court. The outcome of that debate was a request from the African Union to the Security Council to defer the cases of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto

Since the fall of apartheid, the tide has turned against white people from European backgrounds and it is reported that thousands have been killed in a move to drive them out of South Africa.

On the 6th of September, the Kenyan Parliament passed a motion to withdraw from the ICC. Kenya is the first country ever to make moves to withdraw from the court and this could have wide reaching implications, not least for Kenya.