South Africa's failure to arrest the Sudanese president is the latest incident in a troubled relationship between the court and African states.
Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir was allowed to leave South Africa on 15 June in defiance of a temporary order issued a day earlier by the High Court in Pretoria, which required South African authorities to prevent him from leaving the country until an application submitted by a human rights group was heard by the court.
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