Alex Ritson

Sarah Duterte, the vice president, who is now facing impeachment, is also the frontrunner to win the next election in the next two years.

And that's the thing.

He says these charges are politically motivated.

Are they?

No, it's an ICC warrant and it's been very carefully thought through.

Also, there is enormous amounts of evidence that Bata de la Rosa was a key architect of the policy of allowing massive killings of alleged drug dealers.

I think the ICC would argue, they've spent years sifting through the evidence, there's a very strong case.

The real argument that the Duterte camp makes is that an ICC warrant shouldn't apply in the Philippines because the Philippines is no longer a member...

Now, the Philippine Supreme Court has disagreed with this in the case of President Duterte.

The Philippines was a member of the ICC when these killings in Manila started.

And remember, the charges relate to earlier killings in the city of Davao.

President Duterte pulled it out in 2019.

But all these charges relate to actions before that.

And the Philippine Supreme Court has agreed that that does make people in the Philippines still liable for what they did at that time.

Jonathan Head.

For decades, France has had a problematic relationship with Africa.

Several countries on the west of the continent have pivoted away from their former colonial master and been taken over by military governments and strongmen.

In response, President Emmanuel Macron is co-hosting the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, together with his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto.

That was the French national anthem, the Marseillais, being played at the opening of the conference, which is designed to showcase France's revised approach to engagement with Africa.

I spoke to our global affairs reporter, Richard Kigoy, who is in Nairobi.