An ICC spokesman confirmed it was the heaviest ever penalty handed down by the court, which was set up in 2002 to try the world’s worst crimes
Rwanda’s president has denied backing accused Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, saying his challenge to a senior US official proves his innocence.
The crimes court has opened an investigation into allegations by four people who say they were subjected to sexual abuse by a court staff member.
The seven-year pursuit of one of Africa’s most wanted war criminals ended when he pulled up in a taxi at the United States embassy in Rwanda.
The US is working towards giving Bosco Ntaganda, holed up in the country’s embassy in Rwanda, safe passage to the International Criminal Court.
Rwanda says it will not be responsible for DRC fugitive warlord Bosco Ntaganda’s transfer to the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
General Bosco Ntaganda, the DRC deserter accused of recruiting child soldiers, has emptied towns across the Congo as villagers flee his brutal attacks
Human Rights Watch has released a video calling on DRC President Joseph Kabila to arrest General Bosco Ntaganda and send him to face war crime charges.
The DRC’s President Joseph Kabila has called for the arrest of ex-warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who has been serving the country despite ICC indictment.
When Nigerian-American businessman Kase Lawal courted Thabo Mbeki in an oil deal South Africa got screwed. Now he is cosying up to Jacob Zuma.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has freed two Americans, a Frenchman and two Nigerians accused of gold smuggling.
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/ 6 February 2010
The casual sportsman in an oasis of luxury amid the poverty of Goma, in the DRC, is a man the United Nations would prefer did not exist at all.
The UN peacekeeping force in the DRC on Wednesday dismissed media reports it was working with a former rebel leader facing war crimes charges.
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/ 5 February 2009
Rebels in the DRC asked Kinshasa this week to grant them immunity for acts carried out during the recent war in the country’s eastern region.
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/ 2 February 2009
As the trial of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga starts in The Hague, Stephanie Wolters wonders why his former deputy, Bosco Ntaganda, is still free.
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/ 18 January 2009
A pledge by DRC rebels to abandon a four-year insurgency marks a major step towards ending more than a decade of conflict in the east of the country.
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/ 17 January 2009
Dissident commanders from the main rebel group in eastern DRC on Friday declared an end to the conflict in the troubled region.
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/ 15 January 2009
A commander who claims to have overthrown Laurent Nkunda as rebel leader in eastern DRC has set up a ruling committee, his spokesperson says.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for a fourth militia leader from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for recruiting child soldiers to fight in the country’s devastating civil war, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Bosco Ntaganda was charged for his actions during the conflict in the eastern province of Ituri.