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Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan urges Africa not to exit ICC
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
The African Union has called for the ICC to drop the charges against the the of Kenya, where lawmakers have voted to withdraw from the 10-year-old court.
Annan also warned that “serious challenges remain, and new threats are emerging” despite the region’s fast economic growth and social gains in areas like health and education as well as the growth of democracy.
“But real and exciting as progress has been, we cannot afford to become complacent. After all, Africa has endured false dawns in the past.”
African countries account for 34 of the 122 parties to have ratified the Rome Statute, the court’s founding treaty, which took effect on July 1, 2002.
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