censure Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/censure/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 14 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 censure Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/censure/ 32 32 SA could face UN censure for letting Bashir go https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/sa-could-face-un-censure-for-letting-bashir-go/ Sun, 14 Jun 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/06/sa-could-face-un-censure-for-letting-bashir-go/ South Africa could face censure in the United Nations Security Council for failing to take appropriate action to detain and hand over Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir to the International Criminal Court. Western analysts say the South African government facing tough questions from the Pretoria High Court could also be grilled in the UN powerhouse. […]

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]]> South Africa could face censure in the United Nations Security Council for failing to take appropriate action to detain and hand over Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir to the International Criminal Court.
Western analysts say the South African government facing tough questions from the Pretoria High Court could also be grilled in the UN powerhouse.
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South African government department have been ordered by the Pretoria High Court to explain how President Omar al Bashir slipped through their fingers, defying a court order that he be prevented from leaving South Africa until it had ruled on whether the government should meet its legal obligation to arrest the Sudanese leader.
The ICC could have the UN Security Council make similar demands, say analysts, citing the 2011 example of Kenya being censured for failing to detain Bashir.

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