Month: January 2016

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has pleaded not guilty to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. His co-accused Charles Ble Goude also pleaded not guilty to the ...

From the time Dominic Ongwen surrendered to the US military in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2015, I have been following the emerging media reports and debates for mainly ...

Fatou Bensouda, the ICC Chief Prosecutor, has refuted rumours that her witnesses were withdrawing from the Laurent Gbagbo case and that the prosecution was not ready to begin the trial. ...

 A displaced mother prepares food for her child outside the UNAMID base in Um Baru, North Darfur. UN Photo/Hamid Abdulsalam To the UN Secretary General 26.01.2016 the President and Members ...

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN (left), has requested the International Criminal Court to “investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed against the Nigerian people by some former and serving ...

The trial in the case of The Prosecutor v. Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé is scheduled to open on Thursday, 28 January 2016 before Trial Chamber I of the ...

The Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Thursday unveiled 70 charges of war crimes against Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen, including keeping sex slaves and recruiting child ...

Dominic Ongwen at his confirmation of charges hearing in ICC courtroom I on 21 January 2016 © ICC-CPI Hearings for the confirmation of charges in the case against Lord’s Resistance ...

ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda lays a wreath in Lukodi village, in Gulu district northern Uganda, dedicated to victims of the Lord's Resistance Army, Feb. 28, 2015. (Reuters) More than 1400 ...

By Susan Kendi Prosecutors have lined up over 1,000 items of evidence in the case against former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court. The 1,006 ...