The man at the top of the International Criminal Court’s most-wanted list is the favourite to be elected president.

Hundreds of cheerful Somalis sang, whistled and hoisted up posters of Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, who was just selected as the beleaguered country’s new leader.

Robert Mugabe brazenly and brutally stole his latest re-election as president of Zimbabwe. Now Africa’s leaders, who have looked the other way for far too long, must decide what they will do.