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The African Union and the UN Just Grew Closer

By Barbara Crossette | Mar 01, 2011

ADDIS ABABA -- The 53-member African Union, which has been criticized in the past for failing to condemn abuses by leaders across the continent, took the unusual step this week of accusing Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of using disproportionate force to counter citizens’ protests and went on record saying that the people of Libya had “legitimate” demands for change.

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The Court Moves Fast With the Help of the French Police

French authorities on Oct. 11 arrested Callixte Mbarushimana, the executive secretary of Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), a rebel group operating in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for about the last 10 years.

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Kenya Defies - and Undermines - the International Criminal Court

By Barbara Crossette | Sep 01, 2010

On Aug. 27, as dignitaries from around the world gathered at a ceremony in Nairobi to mark the inauguration of a new democratic constitution for Kenya, there was no mistaking the leader sitting front and center in the reviewing stand: Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan and an indicted war criminal.

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