Africa Cases

By Thomas Verfuss Reporting on trials at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, is a huge challenge for African journalists. Few can afford to travel to The Hague,...

 Civil society organizations (CSOs) have asked the Government of Uganda to arrest and surrender President Al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial for alleged perpetration of crimes against...

 By Abdullahi Abdi Days ahead of the deadline for filing petitions against the repeat presidential election results on November 6, Kenyan authorities, again, cracked down on civil society groups critical of...

 By Susan Kendi Notoriety had earned the Lord’s Resistance Army the moniker of Otong Otong among the Acholi, Parajok and other ethnic groups in Sudan. Otong Otong translates to something...

A radio station was closed down for reading a letter that exposed a negative side of President Yoweri Museveni to the people of Uganda. Witness P-0138 told judges at the...

By Susan Kendi How does a man with more than 30 wives talk about the relations of his spouses? He does not, a witness told the International criminal Court (ICC)...

By Susan Kendi A radio station was closed down for reading a letter that exposed a negative side of President Yoweri Museveni to the people of Uganda. Witness P-0138 told...

 By Tom Maliti A witness described to the International Criminal Court (ICC) some of the habits of the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, as well as...

 By Susan Kendi A witness revealed to have collected evidence of Lord Resistance Army fighters(LRA) that have committed crimes in during the 30-year conflict and forward it to the ICC....

By Thomas Verfuss Ambassadors and other diplomats, civil society/NGO representatives and journalists converged in the brand new Netherlands Foreign Ministry building next to The Hague Central Station on Monday for an...