It has been a rough month for the International Criminal Court. A week after deciding to withdraw the charges in the high profile case of Uhuru Kenyatta, the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda appeared before the UN Security Council to inform them that the court will be suspending investigations into atrocities committed in Darfur due to a lack of cooperation by the Sudanese government, ICC member states and the UN.
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Darfur Has Faded From the Headlines, But It's Still a Total Mess
More than 11 years after the government of Sudan and rebel groups in Darfur took up arms against each other, the conflict still rages on. Amid a lack of international attention, civilians still find themselves caught between various rebel and pro-government forces. On their side is supposed to be AU and UN peacekeepers mandated to protect civilians. But while the international community may have a mandate, numerous reports and events in 2014 demonstrate that they lack the will to carry that mandate out.
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