Politicians defend Omar al-Bashir fleeing an ICC arrest warrant, saying the court is a bully and targets Africa. Karen Williams disagrees.
South Africa is considering withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, but only after all other avenues have been exhausted.
These African crimes are not a fabrication of the ICC’s imagination. Leaders should consult the masses whose own national courts often fail them.
But the African body has plotted a path towards "owning the budget" within the next five years.
We signed both the Rome Statute and the African Union protocol that sitting heads of state would not be prosecuted – surely a policy contradiction.
The Omar al-Bashir saga will probably not affect the African body’s relations with donor nations, according to pundits.
African Union representatives have called the South African court action to arrest Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir a waste of the body’s time.
The whereabouts of Sudanese President Al-Bashir were still not known on Monday morning, more than 12 hours since the first report that he had left SA.
Is Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir — wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity — in South Africa for the AU summit?
Kenyan president calls for plans to "rejuventate" the African Peer Review Mechanism.
African leaders gathered in Sandton for the Nepad heads of state meeting on Saturday were told that the continent had a lot to celebrate.
SA’s hosting of the African Union summit brings a responsibility to address the continent’s most pressing human rights and humanitarian issues.
African leaders have signed a historic agreement to create the continent’s largest common market, encompassing 26 countries.
The African Union believes it could fund its own programmes if it was not losing so much money through illicit outflows of capital from the continent.
May 25 is Africa Day. It is neither a day for Afropessimists to gloat nor one for Afro-optimists to say the African dream has been achieved.
We only notice the problem when the persons concerned happen to be seized by a moment of indiscretion or when their ambitions get the better of them.
According to leaked secret intelligence documents, Dlamini-Zuma allegedly faced "an eminent threat" to her life in Addis Ababa in 2012.
The president is having his 91st birthday bash this weekend – but Zimbabweans hurt by the economy are not in the mood to celebrate.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party has called the EU’s lifting of a travel ban on President Robert Mugabe "inconsequential".
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s appointment as the new chairperson of the 54-nation African Union has drawn criticism from some.
The AU says that three peacekeepers and five Islamist gunmen were killed in the ensuing battle, which saw the gunmen infiltrate the base in Mogadishu.
Five women believed to be wives of Al Shabab members were killed by a soldier in retaliation for the beheading of his wife by the group.
Countries in the region should offer asylum to refugees who are fleeing the repressive state and dying at alarming rates in the Mediterranean Sea.
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The AU said lifting the travel ban would ease the economic impact of the restrictions, which add to continent’s woes.
The African Union will have to deal with a crisis of another colour altogether, even as a continental response strategy to illness takes shape.
A new African rapid intervention force is expected to be launched by October – but concerns remain about funding.
At 10, the toothless Pan African Parliament remains little more than a noble concept.
The effectiveness of Africa’s major geopolitical organisations continues to be called into question, write Dawn Nagar and Dan Kuwali.
Africa Day is on Sunday. How close has the continent come to achieving the integration the OAU founders had in mind when they formed the body in 1963?
Sadly, the Africa Union’s jubilee year witnessed a rise in terrorism and strife on the continent.
After 23 years as an independent nation, Somaliland is still being denied recognition, says president Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo.
Africans say the focus on its leaders is proof that the International Criminal Court is just an expensive and elaborate sham, writes Tim Murithi.