The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court plans to launch a formal probe into alleged mass killings in Côte d’Ivoire.
Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor’s trial for arming Sierra Leone rebels who paid him in blood diamonds closed on Friday.
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/ 31 January 2011
Thailand’s anti-government movement the Red Shirts has officially asked the ICC to investigate possible crimes against humanity.
Prominent Kenyans named by the ICC as masterminds of the 2007-2008 post-election violence proclaimed their innocence on Wednesday.
The ICC has named six suspects, including two top politicians, alleged to have masterminded the deadly 2007/08 post-election violence in Kenya.
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/ 1 December 2010
The AU expressed confidence in Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir — wanted by the ICC — as well as his vice president to ensure peace in the country.
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/ 29 November 2010
Sudan announced it would boycott the African-European Union summit in Libya to "avoid embarrassment to Libya".
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/ 22 November 2010
Former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba of the DRC goes on trial on Monday for rapes and murders allegedly committed by his troops.
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/ 12 November 2010
A human rights group in Kenya said a former government minister may be trying to derail the ICC’s investigation into Kenya’s post-election violence.
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/ 28 September 2010
The criticism that the International Criminal Court was against African countries was unfair, Judge Richard Goldstone said on Monday.
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/ 3 September 2010
Kenya is allowing the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an office in the country.
Kenya’s government has defended its recent failure to arrest Sudan’s president on international charges of war crimes and genocide.
African countries are divided about whether they should arrest Sudan’s president on suspicion of genocide, diplomats at a summit said on Sunday.
Two Sudan rebel leaders surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday to answer to accusations of war crimes in Darfur.
It is only a matter of time before Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is arrested on war-crimes charges, the chief prosecutor of the ICC has said.
Ban Ki-moon has urged all states to sign up to the International Criminal Court and rejected criticism the body was a court for only African crimes.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, the only sitting head of state wanted for war crimes, will be sworn in on Thursday.
A day after polls returned President Omar al-Bashir to power, Sudan on Tuesday turned its attention to forging unity in Africa’s largest country.
The ICC said on Wednesday it has given the green light for a probe by its prosecutor of deadly violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 elections.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has likened Sudan elections scheduled for next month to "a Hitler election".
Kenyan political leaders organised and financed post-election attacks against civilians in 2008, the ICC prosecutor told judges on Wednesday.
Sudan’s former rebels launched their campaign on Sunday for the nation’s first multiparty elections in 24 years.
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/ 2 December 2009
Former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba poses a flight risk and a threat to witnesses and must remain in custody, a judge said on Wednesday.
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/ 11 November 2009
Kenyan leaders have split with the ICC, leaving the court to find alternative ways to pursue the perpetrators of 2007’s post-electoral violence.
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/ 5 November 2009
The ICC prosecutor arrived in Kenya on Thursday for talks on trying those behind last year’s post-poll violence, which claimed 1 500 lives.
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/ 19 October 2009
ICC prosecutors said on Monday Sudanese Darfur rebel leader Bahr Idriss Abu Garda deliberately ordered the killing of 12 AU peacekeepers.
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/ 15 October 2009
The prosecutor of the ICC said on Thursday he was investigating last month’s deadly crackdown on Captain Moussa Dadis Camara.
Kenya will cooperate with the ICC to try key suspects behind unrest after the country’s bitterly disputed 2007 election, a top minister said.
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/ 3 September 2009
The ICC on Thursday put on hold the conditional release of Congolese rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, who is facing trial on charges of war crimes.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday voiced regret that the US was not part of the International Criminal Court as she promoted its usefulness in Africa.
Kenya said its Cabinet would meet on Thursday in a third attempt to reach agreement on a tribunal to deal with perpetrators of last year’s violence
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will never sign a peace agreement so international efforts should focus instead on arresting him.