Chidi Odinkalu

A lawyer from Nigeria, Chidi Anselm Odinkalu received his Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economic and Politics Science. He is a former Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Laws at the Harvard Law School and Brandeis International Fellow, Centre for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at the Brandeis University, both in Massachusetts, USA.

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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Saving international justice in Africa

At the conclusion of its Summit in Sirte, Libya, on July 1, 2009, the Assembly of Heads of State and Governments of the African Union (AU) decided that “AU Member States shall not cooperate … in the arrest and surrender of President Omar El Bashir of The Sudan.” In a press release issued two weeks later, on July 14, the organisation explained that this decision “bears testimony to the glaring reality that the situation in Darfur is too serious and complex an issue to be resolved without recourse to an harmonised approach to justice and peace, neither of which should be pursued at the expense of the other.”

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