Zambia: 'We Stay in ICC'

"Zambia will continue to uphold its membership on the International Criminal Court (ICC), Parliament heard yesterday.

Justice Minister Given Lubinda told the House that from the submissions received from a country-wide consultative process, 91.43 per cent of the petitioners were against the idea of Zambia withdrawal from the ICC while only 8.57 per cent were of the view that the country should consider pulling out...

At the 28th Summit of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) early this year, the AU resolved on a non-binding recommendation that there should be a mass withdrawal of African countries from the ICC citing partiality of the Court..."