AFRICAN LEADERS ACCUSED ICC OF WITCH-HUNTING, THREATENS TO PULL OUT

The International Criminal Court (ICC), has come under a strong criticism from African Union for its unfair target African leaders. Kenya president to that effect, proposed that African leaders pulls out of the body.

 Chad’s President Idriss Deby, elected African Union chairman at the
two-day summit, criticised the court for focusing its efforts on African leaders.

“Elsewhere in the world, many things happen – many flagrant violations of human rights – but nobody cares,” Deby said at the close of the summit late Sunday, which had an official theme of protecting human rights.

No legally binding decision was made, and the decision to leave the ICC’s founding Rome Statute is up to an individual nation.