Will African Union succeed in Burundi?

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza

There is no doubt that the rhetoric of sovereignty has been employed by many ruling elites as an anchor to hide atrocities and abuse of human rights in their jurisdictions.

Here in Kenya, it has been one of the key points in efforts to deflate the intervention by the International Criminal Court in the 2007-8 post-election violence even as the Kenyan state did nothing to investigate and bring to book the perpetrators or indeed undertake any meaningful national healing process.