Above the Law: Cameroon’s faceoff with the International Criminal Court.

By Honoré A. NGAM* & edited by Innocent Chia
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Cameroon has ratified most of the core international human rights treaties such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Cameroon, like much of Africa actively participated in the deliberations and negotiations leading to the creation of the ICC and featured among the first countries to sign the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court on the 17 July, 1998. Ironically, this early enthusiasm towards the ICC has been blighted by a prolonged reluctance to ratify the ICC statute earning Cameroon the status of an ‘ICC hesitant’ country.

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[John Dinga]

Criminal minds almost always keep a respectable distance from anything related to courts or make haste very slowly going in that direction (n'est-ce pas, Monsieur Joseph Nkounda, war lord of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo?).