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Volume 2014, Issue 278, November 2014
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Shambolic, shameful and symbolic - implications of the African UnionĂ¢??s immunity for African leaders
Author Max Du PlessisSource: Institute for Security Studies Papers 2014 (2014)More LessAfrican heads of state recently adopted an amended protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, which contains a provision that grants immunity from prosecution to serving African Union (AU) heads of state and other senior officials. This paper looks at the real motivation behind this provision and its context. The amendment should be seen against the backdrop of the AU's open hostility to the International Criminal Court's (ICC's) investigations currently focusing on Africa. The immunity provision is short-sighted, at odds with the AU's own Constitutive Act, does not sit with certain tenets of international law and has drawn much criticism from civil society and human-rights groups. But, in the end, it probably serves as little more than a symbolic fist shake in the face of the ICC.