The relatively high number of cases pursued by the International Criminal Court in Africa is questioned by Euronews viewer Joseph, in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He asks: “Why does the ICC seem to focus only on African issues? What about the crimes committed, for example in Syria or the Palestinian territories?”
Fadi El Abdallah, spokesperson for the International Criminal Court: responds: “It’s the African states that have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate crimes allegedly committed on their territory. They are the overwhelming majority of investigations that the ICC has opened. The other way is through referral to the Security Council (of the UN). And the Court was also approached in this way about African States.
Work of ICC “The ICC itself has jurisdiction in states that have ratified the Rome Statute and on that basis the ICC also led the so-called preliminary examinations in several other countries including Palestine, Georgia, Hondu
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