When Two Elephants Fight the Grass Gets the Wrath: The Impact of the Impasse in the Relations between African Union and International Criminal Court on the Protection of Human Rights in Darfur, the Sudan

Abstract

This paper presents the challenges to protecting human rights in Africa by taking The Sudan as a case study. An arrest warrant had been issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was for the former president of Sudan. The topic was gross human rights violations in Darfur (2009). It was decided by the African Union (AU) that the International Criminal Court (ICC) would not get cooperation from their end. A serious gridlock had been resulted in the relationship between the AU and the ICC, which has not eased the human rights violations in the Darfur. This paper discusses the human rights situation in Dafur. It presents how human rights in Darfur are hanging on a balance due to the impasse in African Union-International Criminal Court relations concerning Al Bashir. This paper used doctrinal legal research method and as such relied largely on secondary sources of data.