NAIROBI: Kenyan lawmakers were on Thursday to debate pulling out of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in an angry snub of The Hague-based tribunal ahead of next week’s trial of the country’s vice-president.

Should Kenya choose to leave the ICC—the first country potentially to do so—it will be more of a symbolic vote of defiance and would not affect upcoming trials of the East African nation’s leadership, since legal proceedings have already started.

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