Africa Cases

By Tom Maliti, IJ Monitor September 26, 2017 A former fighter with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony ordered a unit to kill his deputy, Vincent Otti, a...

By Susan Kendi Both government soldiers and Lords Resistance Army fighters killed civilians, a witness told the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday, September 25, 2017. Witness P-0233, a former...

By Tom Maliti -- IJ Monitor A former long-serving member of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) told the International Criminal Court (ICC) that sessions during which the LRA leader said...

 (Nairobi, August 28, 2017) – Kenya’s presidential election on August 8, 2017 was marred by serious human rights violations, including unlawful killings and beatings by police during protests and house-to-house...

By Tom Maliti, IJ Monitor A childhood friend of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), told the International Criminal Court (ICC) how Kony’s character changed once...

 By Susan Kendi On Monday, July 10, former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen returns to court at The Hague after a three-week recess for a fifth session of hearings....

 By Susan Kendi Bosco Ntaganda, the Congolese warlord also known as ‘The Terminator’, took the witness stand in his own defence at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday June 14,...

Bosco Ntaganda’s defense at the International Criminal Court got off to a rocky start when judges rejected an application to file a no-case-to-answer motion on Monday, May 29, 2017.  ...

By Paolina Massidda The armed conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (the LRA) in Northern Uganda – described as the worst forgotten humanitarian crisis in...

South Sudan journalist, Michael Christopher, was last week arrested in the capital, Juba.Christopher, the editor-in-chief of the independent Arabic-language daily al-Watan, was arrested by the National Security Service after his paper allegedly...