{"id":141835,"date":"2025-10-10T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/expert-urges-africa-to-fix-not-abandon-the-icc"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:05:54","slug":"expert-urges-africa-to-fix-not-abandon-the-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/expert-urges-africa-to-fix-not-abandon-the-icc","title":{"rendered":"Expert Urges Africa to Fix, Not Abandon, the ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span><b>As debate intensifies over Africa\u2019s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) following the recent withdrawal of the Sahel Alliance countries, legal experts are calling for reform rather than rejection of the court.<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Donald Deya<\/b>, CEO of the <b>Pan African Lawyers Union<\/b>, acknowledged the ICC\u2019s early bias concerns but argued that walking away is not the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is fair to criticise the ICC in its first years that it concentrated on Africa and led to the perception or the reality that it was going for the weak states and avoiding powerful perpetrators. But the way to address it, in my view, is not to walk away, but to reform the practice of the ICC,\u201d Deya said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the court to <b>rebuild trust and confidence<\/b> by acting on global atrocities without political bias, communicating transparently with victims, and ensuring investigations are professional and complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ICC does face a big credibility problem&#8230; people are skeptical that it seems to be a tool of powerful states. But people should also look at the accountability gap that would happen if the ICC was not there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Deya concluded that Africa should strengthen its own judicial systems \u2014 but emphasized the ICC\u2019s vital role when national courts fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the obligation of many actors, including the ICC, to strengthen national systems&#8230; But where they fail, the ICC should be able to kick in robustly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as divisions deepen across Africa on whether to reform or abandon the ICC amid mounting concerns over justice and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Tanzania<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. As debate intensifies over Africa\u2019s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) following the recent withdrawal of the Sahel Alliance countries, legal experts are calling for reform rather than rejection of the court. Donald Deya, CEO of the Pan African Lawyers Union, acknowledged the ICC\u2019s early bias concerns but argued that walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":141834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[14346,8304,2812,711],"class_list":["post-141835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-colonel-assimi-goita","tag-coup","tag-icc","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Expert Urges Africa to Fix, Not Abandon, the ICC - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/expert-urges-africa-to-fix-not-abandon-the-icc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Expert Urges Africa to Fix, Not Abandon, the ICC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. 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