Felix Kilonzo

Tweet                                                                Nairobi Comprehensive Peace Agreement Commonly known as CPA that led to the succession of South Sudan from the oppressive North Sudan laid foundations to the newly and youngest African state role in the stability of the entire great lakes Peace. However, the stand off over the Abyei conflict seems to be dragging the two countries into unprecedented agony that may require the United Nations intervene. In 2011, I wrote an article that reflected that the Abyei question was supposed to be dealt with before the South went on and being declared independent from the Khartoum government. I argued that ' this referendum might be a lasting solution for the atrocities of civil wars over the oil rich country and only when it’s independent that it would benefit from its mineral resources.’  Just what I had predicted the Abyei conflict would take much longer owing to the fact that the now two nations would be independe

                                                                                                   Tweet   The international criminal court is on all systems go to begin the lengthy trial of Kenya's Deputy President William Samoei Ruto and Former Radio journalist Joshua Arap Sang in September . According to a press release by The Hague based ICC in April, the Deputy President application to appear via video link seems to have been technically denied and therefore the suspect would appear in person at the ICC trial chamber v. "On 31 March 2010, Pre-Trial Chamber II granted the Prosecutor's request to open an investigation proprio motu in the situation in Kenya, State Party since 2005. Following summonses to appear issued on 8 March 2011 in two separate cases, six Kenyan citizens voluntarily appeared before Pre-Trial Chamber II on 7 and 8 April 2011," the release read in part. Ruto and his Boss Uhuru Kenyatta were confirmed to have a case to battle with on 23 Janua

President Museveni applauded Kenyans for rejecting the blackmail by the West on the status of the ICC suspects saying that the sovereignty of the Kenyans remained entirely with them. The East African Chair of the summit of the head of states said that Africa should be left alone to solve its own problems and not inviting foreign courts to administer justice. The president’s statement are in one way or another deemed to be inappropriate especially at a time when Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy would be appearing at the ICC based in Hague Netherlands.  “I want to salute the Kenyan voters on one issue – the rejection of the blackmail by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and those who seek to abuse this institution for their own agenda” Museveni said in statement. Uganda President Kaguta Museveni President Museveni came clean that he had earlier supported the ICC citing that he does not support impunity blamed the local leaders of using the ICC as a form of locking their opponent