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In June 2012, the Islamic group Ansar Dine (a radical group with alleged links to al-Qaeda) took control of Timbuktu in northern Mali. The threat posed to the city, which contains thousands of...
Senior emerging market officials say leaders from the world's major emerging economies are likely to endorse plans at a summit next week to create a joint foreign exchange reserves pool and an...
ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda today formally opened an investigation into alleged crimes committed on the territory of Mali since January 2012. This decision is the result of the preliminary...
On 18 July 2012, Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), released a press statement confirming receipt of a referral of the situation in Mali by the country’s...
Since its birth, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has had Africa as its most substantial client base. This can be interpreted as evidence of the poor governance systems that remain prevalent...
Since the early 1990s, Africa has been the hub of international criminal justice. In 1994, following the crimes committed in Rwanda, an ad hoc international tribunal for Rwanda was set up to...
Critics of international criminal justice say it is too slow, expensive and hobbled by politics. However, in November 2011 the pace and effectiveness of international criminal justice increased....
On 1 February 2011, Phakiso Mochochoko – a Lesotho national – took up the position of head of the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division (JCCD)...