Ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of terrorism, murder and rape committed by rebels during Liberia’s 11-year civil war.
Liberian former leader Charles Taylor awaits a verdict on charges of arming Sierra Leone’s rebels in return for "blood diamonds" in the 1990s.
The ICC will hand down judgment in the trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga who is accused of enlisting child soldiers under 15 to fight.
Former Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo will appear before the ICC for the first time on Monday over his role in the aftermath of last year’s polls.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo has been sent to the ICC to face criminal charges — becoming the first former president to stand before the tribunal.
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court says Kenya’s 2007 post-poll violence was not spontaneous but carefully planned by two ex-ministers.
Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic has been placed in custody in The Hague to await trial for war crimes after almost 16 years on the run.
Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela turns 88 on Tuesday.
Sounds of Zulu war dances and a military parade filled the air on Sunday as South Africans hailed a Zulu hero whose rebellion a century ago sowed the first seeds of black resistance. Soldiers and Zulu warriors, dressed in traditional leopard skins, joined thousands to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bhambatha rebellion, an event that had huge ramifications in South African history.
Residents in Harare say they live on a "cholera time-bomb" as the Zimbabwean city struggles to clean up garbage and maintain sewers in an outbreak that has already cost 27 lives. An unusually wet rainy season compounds the problem, especially in slum areas like Dzivarasekwa, about 10km north of the city, and the sprawling semi-urban area of Epworth, to the east.
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/ 21 November 2004
When their trademark black cars rolled up at British socialite Mark Thatcher’s gates in Cape Town a few months ago, the members of South Africa’s elite Scorpions unit knew they were netting their biggest catch to date. But the Scorpions have also been ruffling feathers in many other quarters of South Africa.
A mining charter drawn up by the SA government which will give black companies control of all mines within 10 years has run into a storm of criticism.
ZIMBABWEAN Finance Minister Simba Makoni has pledged that his country would repay its international debt, but said it could not happen without the help of the international community. “We are seeking to normalise our relationships with the international community, and one aspect will be to fulfil our obligation to our international creditors,” Makoni told a […]