Africa Newspapers

AfricaFiles InfoServ - Eastern Region

• International Criminal Court is not a kangaroo court that Kenyan politicians can manipulate
  In another addition to the ongoing justice debate in Kenya, Maini Kiai calls on Kenyan politicians to accept the central role of the ICC in dealing with post-2008 election violence. Despite recent gains made by Kenya’s legal system, it is still too fragile to handle such complex legal situations with accountability. Kiai is particularly critical of the Kenyan leaders, saying that they want accountability on their own terms rather than a meaningful, impartial judicial process. KBL
  
  
• Will China help out the West in Sudan?
  "...perhaps only China has the deep pockets and appetite for risk to buy the world’s way out of its Sudan problem: a problem created largely by Western fecklessness...." GK
  
  
• Sudan, South Sudan crisis ’major threat’ to peace: United Nations chief
  "UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Sunday a crisis between former enemies Sudan and South Sudan has become a major threat to regional peace and security." GK
  
  
• Kiir explains South Sudan’s refusal to sign oil deal with Khartoum
  "South Sudan president, Salva Kiir Mayradit, on Tuesday told fellow heads of state at the (AU) summit that his country refused to sign a proposed deal on oil with neighboring Sudan because the deal failed to comprehensively address the fundamental causes of the crisis." GK
  
  
• Sudan Oil Crisis: Extortion and misappropriation are not ‘negotiations’
  "A crisis that has been months, indeed years in the making has come to a head with the decision by the sovereign nation of the Republic of South Sudan to shut down all Southern oil production in the face of continuing extortion, theft, and misrepresentation of oil production and oil revenues by the Khartoum regime. Predictably, the international response takes the form of urgent pleas for Khartoum and Juba to ’compromise.’" GK