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ICC prosecutor pins janjaweed leader and Bashir ally in Darfur case
A leader of Sudan’s infamous Janjaweed militia personally committed murders in Darfur, prosecutors said Monday as he became the first to face charges at the International Criminal Court over the conflict. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by the nom du Guerre Ali Kushayb, was in court for a hearing to decide if there is…
African Union calls for immediate release of detained Malian officials
Congolese President and the current chairman of the African Union (AU) Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo called on Tuesday for the “immediate and unconditional release” of Mali’s transition leaders President Bah Ndaw and his Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane. The two officials were both arrested by the military on Monday just hours after forming a new government — following the resignation of the previous one…
Why a Zimbabwean chief wants Mugabe’s remains exhumed
A Zimbabwean traditional chief has ordered for the remains of former late ruler Robert Mugabe to be exhumed from his rural home and be buried in the national cemetery. A copy of the ruling in the local Shona language stated, “I give powers to those who are permitted by law to exhume the late Robert…
Wide cracks appear in ground near DR Congo volcano sparking more fears
Two major cracks appeared on the ground in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday as powerful aftershocks from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano shook the area, an AFP reporter saw. Cracks, measuring up to several hundred meters (yards) long and several dozen centimeters (roughly two feet) across in places, opened up as the…
Mali’s transition leaders relieved of ‘temporary powers’ by the junta
Mali strongman Assimi Goita on Tuesday forced out two transitional leaders who had been appointed following a coup last August, and promised that elections would be held next year. In a statement read on public television, Goita said President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane had been stripped of their duties for seeking to…
South Africa : My Father Died For This
Can the perpetrators of a notorious apartheid-era crime finally be brought to justice in South Africa ? As South Africa’s apartheid government fought to cling onto power in the latter half of the 20th century, it routinely imprisoned, tortured and murdered its opponents in the liberation movement. Controversially, in the years that followed the end…
LRA commander Dominic Ongwen faces war crimes sentence
ICC judges to hand down sentence to ex-child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander for litany of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Uganda. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is due to sentence Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier who became one of the top commanders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), for war crimes…
Ethiopia replaces head of interim gov’t in war-wracked Tigray
Mulu Nega, who was appointed in November as fighting raged in northern region, is replaced by Abraham Belay, federal government says. Ethiopia’s federal government has replaced the head of the interim administration of Tigray, a region racked by more than six months of catastrophic conflict. Mulu Nega had held the position since November, shortly after…