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Senegal’s African Justice: The Extraordinary African Chambers and the ICC
›By Jordyn Iger // Thursday, March 23, 2017
The National Assembly in Dakar. Senegal’s government has a long history of international engagement, including with the ICC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe, via Flickr. Creative Commons.
In October 2016, Burundi announced its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), followed swiftly by South Africa and the Gambia (though the Gambia’s new president has reversed that decision). The idea of African countries withdrawing from the ICC has been floated since 2013, when Kenya’s parliament voted in favor of the country’s withdrawal in response to a warrant levied against President Uhuru Kenyatta, though Kenya has not yet taken further steps. These three withdrawals provoked fear of a coming “mass African exodus” from the ICC, fears that may have now materialized in a recent announcement of mass intent to withdraw at the January 2017 African Union (AU) summit.
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