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AU adopts President Uhuru’s proposal for ICC mass withdrawal

President Kenyatta said the only alternative for the total withdrawal from the Rome Statute was for the ICC to be drastically reformed.

The President said the Continent and the African Union have sought constructive engagement with ICC and sought its reform.

President Kenyatta said Africa should not tire from the efforts to reform the ICC even as it develops the procedures for mass withdrawal because African nations are not opposed to mechanism for justice.

“When Kenya and the large group of African countries joined the International Criminal Court, it was to seek legal means to complement the other important tools that we have stood up. ,” said the President. “It is my sincere hope that our ICC reform agenda will succeed so that we can return to the instrument we signed up for. If it does not, I believe its utility for this continent at this moment of global turmoil will be extremely limited.”

The report by the ministers, adopted by the AU calls on the ICC, to unconditionally drop the case against the DP and Sang.

The report expressed its deep concern with the propriety of the continued prosecution of the case against the DP and called on the ICC “to terminate the case without further delay as any continued prosecution is without foundation given the unambiguous absence of any evidence capable of belief”.

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