On Thursday 26 April in a landmark ruling, judges sitting in The Hague for the Sierra Leone Special Court convicted Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, of aiding and abetting in eleven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Sierra Leone conflict. He is the first head of [...]
Three powerful NATO countries have announced that Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi could stay in Libya if he is willing to step down from his 42-year reign of power. The International Criminal Court (ICC), who issued an arrest warrant against him in June, is saying that he can’t be left in Libya. The question now is: [...]
For the second time, South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma went Libya to seek peace accord. In the first visit as part of an African Union delegation, Zuma headed to the strife-torn northern country in order to push for a deal which would bring fighting between Libyan government troops and the opposition to an end. The [...]
The International Crisis Group (ICG) has expressed concern over the ever deteriorating situation in Ivory Coast. They have called on ECOWAS to ensure Laurent Gbagbo’s removal from power by all necessary means before it is too late and the situation descends into violent anarchy and ethnic cleansing. They note how any debate about the outcome [...]
The world is well aware of the atrocities committed by Colonel Gaddafi on his own people both in recent weeks and over his 40 year reign in the North African country. Yet, it is the sight just outside the city of Benghazi where his World Revolutionary Centre (WRC) was located that saw the start of [...]
Amnesty International is urging the authorities here to ensure that government officials suspected of being implicated in post-election violence in ‘08 comply with a summons from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC on Tuesday 8th March issued two summonses to six Kenyans including the Deputy Prime Minister and the former chief of police, but [...]
The winds of change have reached Libya, and it finally looks as though the days are numbered for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi . He has ruled the country for over 40 years, taking control from King Idris in ‘69, at the age of 27. Up until now, Gaddafi has maintained a strong grip on power, by [...]
At the beginning of February a Rwandan court sentenced two journalists to long spells of imprisonment, having convicted them of stirring up hatred. A month and a half earlier, the International Criminal Court in The Hague indicted six prominent Kenyans for crimes against humanity relating to the post-election violence of ‘07-‘08 – one of those [...]
