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South Africa resolves to withdraw from International Criminal Court
Under the court’s international treaty, South Africa was obliged to arrest al-Bashir, and the ICC ordered it to do so. A South African court issued a similar order. Yet instead South Africa allowed him to enter and leave freely.
Since then, the showdown has grown worse. Last month, the ICC ordered South Africa to explain why it had defied the court’s orders. But at the expiry of the court’s 30-day deadline for providing this explanation, South Africa demanded more time – and accused the ICC of violating its own treaty by issuing orders to South Africa without allowing time for a legal challenge.
President al-Bashir, meanwhile, seems to be gaining more African support all the time. He has been invited to attend a major Africa-India summit in New Delhi later this month and an Africa-China summit in Johannesburg in December.
Source: Agencies
