INSIGHT: ICC is after justice,not African leaders

>The International Criminal Court (ICC) has denied that it is anti-African. It says its focus on crimes committed on the continent is based on evidence and a strong demand from the communities affected. Ms Mii Aro-Sanches, the ICC’s international adviser, said in response to the claim: “There is criticism that we are focusing only on Africa. Yes, we have to be there. Remember the situation in Kenya.”

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>As we are all very much aware that on Africa Day, we formally commemorate the creation of the Organisation of the African Unity in 1963, 51 years from this Sunday, as well as the inception of its successor, the African Union, just 12 years ago.

Unbeknown to many, most of human history took place in Africa, where women were equal, if not superior, to men. For thousands of years, African societies were matriarchal and they prospered. By bringing an oppressive form of Colonial Christianity to Africa, Europeans replaced millennia of prosperous matriarchy with oppressive patriarchy.

>I didn’t expect Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire’s Open Letter to Contemporary African Intellectuals to go viral. I thought it would simply be dismissed as a recycling of exhausted critiques and criticisms. Yet I shared it online enthusiastically.

Chief Justice, Augustino Ramadhani The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) has elected its new leadership body placing Tanzania’s Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani as the new president of Africa’s continental court. The new governing bureau was approved at the beginning of its 34th Ordinary Session here on Monday where Lady Justice Elsie N. Thompson was honoured the new court’s Vice President. The current bureau replaces Hon. Lady Justice Sophia A. B. Akuffo and Hon....

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CSU graduate student captures African social justice concerns through film
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Namuyaba Temanju is a ethnic studies graduate student at Colorado State University. Temanju proudly displays one of the grandmothers from her “Grandmother to Grandmother” video project she worked on in Tanzania. (Photo credit: Jillian Keller). Colorado ...

The call by South Africa’s governing party to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) has implications for the rest of the continent. But it is not going to happen any time soon.

On November 30, 2013, the five EA Community (EAC) member states Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi signed a Protocol in Kampala, ostensibly charting the road to a Monetary Union (EAC-MU) and a single currency ten years thence.