On September 12, the UN Secretary-General released the UN/EU midterm review of the UN and EU missions in Chad. A key finding of the review was the deterioration of the security situation in eastern Chad in the past six months.

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Yesterday’s meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council, held in New York, confirmed Africa’s push-back against the ICC. As feared by African human rights activists, one result of the indictment against President Omar al Bashir is that Africa has

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Sudan should not count on an Article 16 deferral at the UN Security Council. The diplomatic maneuvers and rumors do not add up to a coherent plan to stop the ICC indictment of President Omar al Bashir from going ahead.

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The New Sudan (al Sudan al Jadiid) of the late Dr John Garang was a vision of a Sudan of equality and non-discrimination in which the provinces—the margins of the South, west, east and north—all enjoyed a fair share of

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Sentiment and intuition, unlike the mysticism of the ‘cave man’, are the germs of conscience. I choose to use them to predict the obvious, the epitome of the process of a faltering state. I think this piece could contribute to

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Those of us who daily face the victims of Darfur fail to explain how would the indictment of President Al-Bashir by the ICC Luis Moreno-Ocampo bring more sufferings to Darfurians? We also fail when some people keep imploring us to

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Northern Kordofan does not qualify for a war of liberation, now. But in light of the gravity and importance of the situation there, I would like to ink a few points to draw more attention to Northern Kordofan. Kordofan is

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Many commentators have questioned why the Prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo, is pursuing Bashir, given the unlikelihood of ever arresting him. To understand what the Prosecutor hopes to gain from this move, we should interpret it in the

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The question arises whether an international criminal tribunal can indict, issue arrest warrants for, or prosecute, a serving head of State. It is generally accepted that under international law, serving heads of State are immune from the jurisdiction of other

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The International Criminal Court faces political realities today that were not anticipated when the Rome Statute was so laboriously negotiated a decade ago. It’s commonly the case that an international institution develops in ways that its founders didn’t foresee—the UN

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