In the seventh round of voting at the AU summit yesterday Mahamat beat Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed whose government accuses the court of being a racist puppet of imperialist powers.

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As a key leader in creating the International Criminal Court in the ‘90s Canada despatched its former foreign minister Stéphane Dion last year to three African countries moving to quit the ICC.

Since these, Gambia has since had a change of government and reiterated its support for the tribunal.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faced murder charges at the international court, has alleged that the court is a toy of declining imperial powers that obeys the cues of European and American governments.

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