It’s time Africa’s voice is heard at the UN

The outcome of the vote at the UN Security Council late this week, on the issue involving Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, and their trials at the International Criminal Court (ICC), has further exposed the manipulative nature of the institution. One would have thought that when the Security Council was debating internal reforms recently, vestiges of the post-World War II that today still tip the scales in favour of  a few powerful countries would have been scaled down or even done away with all together, but that was not the case. Instead, weaker states were steamrolled over and their irrelevance in the world body stressed, as one by one they were cowed into silence in fear of sanctions, the Democles’ sword that hangs over their heads.