This week provided yet more evidence why for Kenyan journalists, at least, the ICC is the gift that keeps on giving. Here is a story with both domestic and international ramifications, that generates front-page-worthy headlines almost on demand. Between the trial chamber at The Hague, the UN Security Council and the Assembly of State Parties, the ICC cases have so many moving parts. The stories practically write themselves. One guarantee that the ICC story is going to run and run is that a headline such as ‘ICC judges rule Uhuru must attend trial sessions’ always gets eclipsed by a logic-...
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