Africa Cases
Libya remains a priority situation for the office of the prosecutor says Bensouda
It has been eight years since the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda presented the 18th...
Read moreDetailsNtaganda handed 30-year prison sentence at ICC
On Thursday, International Criminal Court (ICC) judges handed down the highest penalty ever given by the court when they announced a 30-year prison sentence for former Congolese rebel commander Bosco...
Read moreDetailsFormer social worker testifies about a reception center for Former LRA abductees
By Tom Maliti A former social worker described to the International Criminal Court (ICC) his work at a center that helped former child abductees of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)...
Read moreDetailsPresiding judge sets date for closing statements in Ongwen trial
By Tom Maliti The Presiding Judge in the trial of Dominic Ongwen has set March 10 of next year as the day when lawyers will start making their closing statements....
Read moreDetailsNtaganda’s sentencing scheduled for November 7
By Susan Kendi The International Criminal Court (ICC) will deliver sentencing in the Bosco Ntaganda case on November 7, 2019. Ntaganda, better known as “The Terminator” is a former rebel...
Read moreDetailsJudges reject motion dismissing sexual and gender-based crimes against Ongwen
By Tom Maliti International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have rejected a motion Dominic Ongwen’s legal team filed asking them to dismiss 11 counts of sexual and gender-based crimes Ongwen is...
Read moreDetailsDefense mental health experts will testify in November
By Tom Maliti Trial Chamber IX has scheduled hearings in the last two weeks of November for defense mental health experts to explain why, in their opinion, Dominic Ongwen had...
Read moreDetailsJudges decline a third defense request for a medical examination of Ongwen
By Tom Maliti The possibility of Dominic Ongwen testifying in his own defense has been the subject of a ruling at the International Criminal Court. On October 1, Trial Chamber...
Read moreDetailsOngwen “wife” denies influencing fellow “wives” in his case
By Susan Kendi Dominic Ongwen’s “wife” has denied trying to influence his former wives not to harm his case. Witness D-13, Ayot Florence, denied ever having received a telephone call...
Read moreDetailsA fifth defense witness says Ongwen was not in Teso
By Tom Maliti A fifth defense witness told the International Criminal Court (ICC) that Dominic Ongwen was not in the eastern Uganda sub-region of Teso when the Lord’s Resistance Army...
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