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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...
Monday 12 December, a cold and cloudless day in New York, saw the start of the 10th session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ending weeks of speculation over the whereabouts of Saif al-Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi, the two were captured in Libya on 19 and 20 November 2011 respectively. Al-Islam, the second son of...
The 2005 Presidential election in Ivory Coast was expected to unite the north and south of the country, yet it was hindered for a period of 5 years.(2) Ivoirians believed that the outcome of the...
Between December 2007 and February 2008, in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election, tensions in Kenya erupted into a civil conflict that rocked the entire continent. The violence, which...
Over the past few months Kenya has become the epicentre of growing tension between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Africa. On 15 December 2010 the prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno...
President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
has applied to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague
to investigate crimes against humanity in the central African...