The Kenyans, with help from the African Union, had instituted reforms to bolster more transparency in the electoral process and to foster reconciliation
“Let it be written in history that the Council failed Kenya and Africa,” exclaimed Rwanda’s United Nations Ambassador Eugène-Richard Gasana last Friday to the United Nations Security Council. He and other African delegates spoke out after the Security Council rejected a resolution proposed by African member states and their regional group, the African Union, seeking a one-year delay in International Criminal Court (ICC) proceedings against Kenya’s President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and Deputy President William Samoei Ruto.