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/ 15 December 2008
The threat of Ugandan rebels on its soil overcame the DRC’s differences with Uganda, a Kinshasa government spokesperson said Monday.
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/ 4 December 2008
South Africa must support, not delay, the indictment of Sudan’s president.
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/ 6 November 2008
If the ICC indicts Sudan’s president for war crimes it could ruin a peace process that ended two decades of civil war, a senior UN official says.
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/ 22 October 2008
An appeals panel of the International Criminal Court refused on Tuesday to free a Congolese warlord, but also rejected an appeal to restart his trial.
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/ 18 October 2008
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Friday he will present a case for the indictment of some rebel commanders.
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/ 17 October 2008
Sudan’s president, accused of genocide by the ICC, launched a national initiative on Thursday to bring peace to Darfur.
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/ 10 October 2008
Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Thursday that war-crimes allegations against him are fabricated.
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/ 27 September 2008
The ICC has ruled there were sufficient grounds to try two militiamen accused of seeking to wipe out an entire village in the DRC in 2003.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is using Africa as a guinea pig, it was claimed during a recent seminar in Cape Town.
A coalition of lawyers, academics and NGOs has begun openly to criticise the competence of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
The prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, on Monday briefed the Senegalese president about the ICC investigation in Darfur.
The UN on Thursday raised concerns that Sudanese anti-terrorism courts which condemned 30 Darfur rebels to death did not meet international standards.
Islamic countries urged the UN Security Council on Monday to stall moves by the International Criminal Court to arrest Omar al-Bashir.
For the first time in international law victims of war crimes can take part in investigations and trials at the ICC.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has sought Mozambican support in his fight against indictment for genocide and crimes against humanity.
A diplomatic offensive by the Sudanese president has endangered the ICC’s charges against him, writes Simon Tisdall.
Our long shopping list of missing equipment makes shameful reading. It should not take the loss of innocent lives to understand what is at stake here.
An international arrest warrant sought against Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is never going to be implemented, South Africa said on Tuesday.
China expressed ”grave concern” on Tuesday after the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor charged Sudan’s president with genocide in Darfur.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor charged Sudan’s president on Monday with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur.
Sudanese opposition parties warned on Monday that an international arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir would destabilise the country.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor looks poised to seek the arrest of Sudan’s president on Monday for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
An indictment of Sudan’s president for war crimes in Darfur would be ”disastrous” for the region and could affect humanitarian organisations there.
The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is widely expected to seek the arrest on Monday of the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir.
Former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba made his first appearance on Friday before the International Criminal Court.
EU leaders threaten Sudan with sanctions if it does not cooperate fully with the International Criminal Court by handing over war-crimes suspects.
A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday appealed for world pressure on Sudan to turn over two suspects sought by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur.
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court charges that ”the whole state apparatus” of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in the Darfur region, linking the government directly with the feared janjaweed militia.
Burma insisted on Sunday that there must be ”no strings attached” to foreign aid destined for its hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims, triggering a sharp reaction from donor countries. Deputy Defence Minister Aye Myint told a regional security forum in Singapore that authorities were trying their best to help their people.
Urging decisive action against Sudanese war-crimes suspects, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor said on Friday he would announce details of a new case next week against senior players in the Darfur conflict. "I will inform the … [United Nations] Security Council on June 5 when I will present my second case," prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said.
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have abducted at least 100 children from neighbouring countries to use as sex slaves and porters, an international human rights group said on Monday. Peace talks between Uganda and the rebels appeared to stall last month when LRA leader Joseph Kony failed to appear at a signing ceremony.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for an international peacekeeping force to be deployed in Zimbabwe to prevent any violence during a presidential run-off ballot next month. Zimbabwe is due to hold the delayed second-round ballot on June 27, when the opposition hopes to oust veteran leader Robert Mugabe.