ABUJA, Nigeria--After nearly a month-long elections cycle, the verdict on the 2011 parliamentary, presidential, and state governor polls is decidedly mixed.
The UN Security Council has extended its current peacekeeping mission in Southern Sudan and unanimously adopted a resolution committing to establish a "successor mission" in the soon-to-be-independent Republic of South Sudan.
Here is hoping that in the few days leading up to Friday's royal nuptials the media gives just a tiny fraction of its attention to the kinds of weddings that are not so royal, elegant--or even legal.
So will the Mubarak regime suddenly come into the court's cross hairs? Not likely, but Egypt joining the ICC is an important symbolic step in the reconstitution of the Egyptian state.