Three weeks of bloody protests  calling for Al Bashir’s departure have left more than 40 people dead.

Sudanese telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim awards an annual prize of $5-million for good governance to a former African leader.

He says he hates impunity. 

But  there is a case for lifting the ICC indictment on Omar Al Bashir – conditional on his stepping down – if it will save lives and spare Sudan a bloody civil war.

The ICC charge, dating back to 2009, alleges Al Bashir engaged in crimes against humanity in putting down  a separatist rebellion in Darfur

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Kabila will come under the spotlight at the SADC summit in Pretoria next month. However, it’s doubtful his neighbors will go so far as to echo the UN call.

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Joseph Kabila’s constitutional mandate as president ran out last November.

He can’t stand again, but he can stay in power until elections are organized.

There have been deadly protests in the DRC calling on him to hurry up.

The UN believes there’s a danger of serious disorder if elections are not held this year.

Asked if SADC leaders would hold Kabila’s foot to the fire, a South African official briefing reporters ahead of their summit says only that the presidents will be briefed on security in the DRC.

What they decide to do after that is up to them.

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Several people have died in the DRC protesting against any delay, arguing that its amounts to President Joseph Kabila clinging to power.

Foreign policy chief  Maite Nkoane Mshebane says the DRC is engaged  in an unprecedented political process.

Since the removal of Mobutu Sese Seko more than 20 years ago, the DRC has never had local or provincial government elections.

In registering new voters Congolese authorities say they’ve discovered about eight million people who’ve  have reached the voting age but are not on the voters’ roll.

There is also the inter-Congolese dialogue that all parties have agreed to.

“If that means the DRC government delaying elections, it would be supported by us. We cannot determine the date of another country’s elections,” said the South African foreign minister

South Africa played a key role in negotiating the inclusive political settlement in post Mobutu DRC.

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