By Mounira Chaieb, Editor, Presenter and Mentor at the ALC July 13, 2021 French Algerian visual artist Rachid Koraichi has created a unique cemetery to provide a dignified final resting place for hundreds of unburied migrants and refugees of all ages, nationalities and religions. The migrants’ bodies have been washed ashore along the coastline of Zarzis in the South […]
ICC sentences Ongwen to 25 years in prison May 7, 2021 DOMINIC Ongwen, who was abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) when he was 10, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Northern […]
ICC Appeals Chamber upholds Gbagbo’s acquittal April 1, 2021 THE Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court has upheld the acquittal by the ICC’s Trial Chamber in January 2019 of former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, and his ex-Minister of Sports and Youth, Charles Blé Goudé. The decision is final and all conditions on […]
Malawian tea workers awarded $3m for gender-based violence March 1, 2021 CAMELLIA Group, which owns tea estates in Malawi, has agreed to pay compensation of $3 million to 36 of its female employees who made claims of gender-based violence against the company. Represented by UK law firm Leigh Day, the women alleged that they had […]
New ICC Prosecutor urged to rise to challenge facing court February 18, 2020 THE new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has been urged by human rights bodies to rise to the challenge facing the court when he takes over in June from Fatou Bensouda from The Gambia who is stepping down […]
Former Ugandan child soldier convicted of war crimes February 8, 2021 A Ugandan who was abducted by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) when he was 10 has been found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Northern Uganda between July 2002 and […]
UK to host first post-Brexit Africa Investment Conference in January January 18, 2021 THE British government will host a virtual Africa Investment Conference on January 20, as the UK starts to independently develop global trade arrangements after exiting the European Union on December 31. In January last year, during the landmark UK-Africa Investment Summit hosted […]
African gas producers poised to take advantage of increased production in 2021 November 27, 2020 ALTHOUGH the global energy sector has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic this year – with oil hardest hit because of its dependence on the struggling transport industry – gas has been less exposed to the shocks of 2020, […]
November 23, 2020 THE UK government has honoured 100 Zimbabwean deminers who have cleared the Falkland Islands of around 25,000 lethal mines that were laid by Argentinian forces that occupied the self-governing British Overseas Territory in 1982 for 74 days. Argentina invaded what it called Islas Malvinas to assert its territorial claims but Britain sent […]
$5bn fund to tackle global education crisis worsened by Covid-19 October 14, 2020 THE Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has announced a $5 billion funding target for the next five years to tackle the “global education crisis” that has been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the peak of school closures earlier in the […]