August 8, 2022 NIGERIAN authorities have welcomed the decision by a museum in the UK to return ownership to Nigeria of 72 Benin Bronzes, which were looted by British forces in 1897. The Horniman Museum and Gardens in South London said that its Board of Trustees took the decision to send back the artefacts, which […]
July 28, 2022 THE fighting that broke out between Libyan militias in Tripoli on July 22, killing at least 13 people, including three children, highlights the state of disarray in the country despite interventions by the UN and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest the situation. The clashes – between forces backing the same […]
May 25, 2022 THE 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have emphasised the need to strengthen the international criminal justice system and the fight against impunity through cooperation between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the regional body. Meeting in Dakar this week, the participants agreed that this would only […]
April 4, 2022 A GOVERNMENT militia leader in Sudan is to become the first person accused of alleged crimes committed in the Western Sudanese region of Darfur to face trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Ali Kushayb will appear before the Court on April 5 charged with 31 counts of war crimes […]
March 18, 2022 MAXIME Mokom, a former leader of Anti-Balaka forces in the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), is to make an initial appearance at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on March 22 to answer to charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Mokom was surrendered to the ICC […]
March 7, 2022 THE former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has been asked to lead a three-member team to investigate alleged human rights abuses in Ethiopia committed by all parties to the conflict that erupted in Tigray on November 3, 2020. The President of the UN Human Rights Council, Federico Villegas […]
February 14, 2022 JUDGES at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague have rejected a claim for compensation by Charles Blé Goudé, a former Minister of Sports and Youth in Cote d’Ivoire, who was acquitted by the Appeals Chamber in April last year for crimes allegedly committed during post-electoral violence in the country between […]
February 9, 2022 THE African Union (AU) has suspended debate on Israel’s Observer Status at the pan-African body that was granted in July 2021. The AU has now established a six-member committee, which includes South Africa, to examine this issue and report back in a year’s time. Israel had Observer Status during the existence of […]
February 1, 2022 RWANDA is to host the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Africa in 15 years, the last having been held in Uganda in 2007. The meeting in Kigali will take place during the week of June 20, the Commonwealth Secretariat has announced in London. Rwanda was supposed to have hosted […]
January 27, 2022 A ZAMBIAN youth activist who was accused of defaming Edgar Lungu when he was president in November 2020 has had the charge dropped by the prosecution. Lawrence Kasonde was arrested for posting a video on a Patriotic Front (PF) WhatsApp group that allegedly defamed Lungu, according to the police. Lungu lost the […]