{{South Sudan’s president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders.}}<\/p>\n
Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya’s post-election violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people.<\/p>\n
Kiir said that South Sudan \u2014 the world’s newest country \u2014 will not sign the Rome Statute that binds countries to the ICC process despite offers of “assistance” in exchange for signing it.<\/p>\n
Kiir and Kenyatta also discussed a planned transport corridor that is to run from Kenya’s coastal of city of Lamu into South Sudan. A proposed pipeline would be used to transport South Sudan’s oil to the coast without having to go through Sudan.<\/p>\n
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