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This article analyses the strained relationship between African States, the African Union, and the International Criminal Court. It starts by scrutinising the allegations of 'anti-Africa bias' that the African Union and some African States have voiced towards the International Criminal Court. Then it looks at the threat of a pull-out of certain African States parties from the ICC Statute after Burundi, South Africa, and The Gambia declared in October 2016 that they were planning to withdraw from the Court. Finally, it analyses the Malabo Protocol, an initiative by the African Union which aims to create criminal chambers in the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights, simply put: an 'African Criminal Court'.

La noción de autoría mediata por control de un aparato de poder, desarrollada por Claus Roxin en los años sesenta del siglo pasado, ha desempeñado un importante papel en decisiones de algunos tribunales internacionales en las que se ha condenado a líderes y dirigentes políticos y militares que, controlando aparatos de poder estatal, han decidido la comisión de crímenes. En este artículo se analiza el impacto de la teoría de Roxin en algunas decisiones de la Corte Penal Internacional. ; The notion of indirect perpetration through organised estructures of power, developed by Claus Roxin in the sixties of the past century, has come to play in a number of international jusrisdictions a key rol in portraying the criminal liability of senior political leaders and high military commanders, that make use of the organisations that they control to effect the commission of the crimes. This article analyzes the impact of the theory by Roxin in some decisions of the International Criminal Court.