Africa fails to get Kenya ICC trials deferred at United Nations

With the aid of Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – An African bid to put off the Global Felony Court docket trials of Kenya's president and his deputy failed at the United Countries on Friday, which Kenya called a humiliation for Africa. The African Union had requested that the U.N. Security Council defer the cases in opposition to Uhuru Kenyatta and his number two, William Ruto, for 365 days to allow them to care for the aftermath of an attack via al Qaeda-linked Somali militants. But the 15-member Security Council was cut up – seven individuals, together with Russia and China, voted in prefer, and eight abstained, together with France, the United States and Britain.