Impunity No More The New York Times | THE HAGUE - In 1998, more than 100 states adopted the Rome Statute to end impunity for those crimes that we had thought, over and over, would never happen again, only to see them occur, again and again: genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. | The states accepted their shared duty to pu...
Africa and the International Court The New York Times | Eleven years ago when I opened the Rome conference that led to the founding of the International Criminal Court, I reminded the delegates that the eyes of the victims of past crimes and the potential victims of future ones were fixed firmly upon them. The delegates, many of whom were African, acte...
2 foreign workers taken in Darfur—officials Inquirer | KHARTOUM – Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told Agence France Presse. | "Unidentified armed men came to th...
Irish, Ugandan aid workers seized in north Darfur Syracuse | (AP) - CAIRO - The international peacekeeping mission in Darfur says gunmen have abducted two female aid workers in the western Sudanese region. | Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the United Nations-African Union force, says the two women work for...
Somalia Insurgents Reject AU Peacekeeping Proposals Voa News | Islamic fighters shoot towards Somali government forces during clashes, in the capital Mogadishu, 03 Jul 2009Militants fighting to overthrow Somalia's U.N.-backed government have condemned talks at the African Union summit in Libya, where African l...
Kony Could Be Tried in Country All Africa LRA Rebel leader Joseph Kony could be tried in Uganda by the International Criminal Court (ICC) if arrested. | ...
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Government to face legal action by returned asylum-seeker The Independent | The Home Office is facing legal action after it forcibly deported a gay Ugandan asylum-seeker when his case was still under review. John Bosco Nyombi is now seeking damages again...
UK police may look into shady payments by RBA co-owned firm The Australian | SCOTLAND Yard has been urged to investigate a firm co-owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia that has been accused of making potentially improper multi-million dollar payments to...
UGANDA: Murder highlights need for protective legislation IRINnews web | GULU, - On the night of 13 May, in the northern Ugandan district of Gulu, Christine Atuk was woken by piercing screams coming from the neighbouring hut where her daughter was...
Ex-Congo vice president to appear at ICC CNN | (CNN) -- Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba is Monday due to appear before the International Criminal Court, where he faces war crimes charges of rape, torture and pillaging during civil war in the African republic. | Bemba, who was ...
LRA accused of DR Congo massacre Al Jazeera | About 1,200 Congolese civilians have been killed and around 1,500 abducted by Ugandan rebels over the last six months, a UN official says. | Ross Mountain, the UN secretary general's deputy special representative, said on Friday that...
Fighting rages in Somalia, 20 dead The Australian | HEAVY fighting in the Somali capital has killed at least 20 people, the second day of fierce clashes as government forces tried to drive hardline Islamists out of their Mogadishu bases. Al Qaeda-linked fighters in Somalia's al Shabaab rebel group are battling to oust President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, himself a former Islamist insurgent who joined a ...
African Union in rift with court Modern Ghana The African Union says it will halt co-operation with the International Criminal Court over its decision to charge Sudan's leader with war crimes. | President Omar al-Bashir was indicted over alleged atrocities in the Darfur region in March. | But delegates to an AU meeting in Libya agreed a resolution saying they would not co-operate in his arrest...
