The first prosecution witness at the war-crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic described to a UN court how he saw Bosnian Serb forces burn homes.
The war-crimes trial of former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, due to have started on April 27, has been postponed to July 5.
Radovan Karadzic took the stand at his war-crimes trial on Monday to reject responsibility for some of Europe’s worst atrocities since World War II.
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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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A court has adjourned Radovan Karadzic’s genocide trial, saying it will announce this week how to proceed in the face of his continued boycott.
South African NGOs hope to invoke ICC law to prosecute individuals with links to alleged war crimes in Gaza.
Liberia’s former president, Charles Taylor, on Monday denied that he had ever eaten human flesh or ordered his fighters to do so.
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir will eventually face justice, the prosecutor who indicted him for war crimes said on Friday.
The International Criminal Court dismissed a bid on Friday by DRC ex-militia chief Germain Katanga for his war crimes trial to be thrown out.
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir on Monday denounced moves to prosecute him for war crimes as an "infringement" on his country’s sovereignty.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic filed ”evidence” on Monday of an immunity deal he claims to have struck with a United States diplomat.
The UN peacekeeping force in the DRC on Wednesday dismissed media reports it was working with a former rebel leader facing war crimes charges.
Sudan’s president visited Eritrea on Monday on his first foreign visit since he was indicted by the ICC for war crimes in Darfur.
Sudan is ready to expel foreign ambassadors "if they exceed their diplomatic mission", President Omar al-Bashir was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Sudan’s president rallied thousands of tribesmen in Darfur on Wednesday as he maintained his defiant stance against moves to arrest him for war crimes
Militiamen welcomed the Sudanese president to Darfur on Wednesday, two weeks after an arrest warrant was issued against him for alleged war crimes.
Sudan will no longer need any international NGOs in war-ravaged Darfur in a year’s time, President Omar al-Bashir said on Monday.
Charges by the UN that 2 800 civilians had been killed in Sri Lanka in recent weeks were ”unsubstantiated”, it was reported on Saturday.
Conditions are already tough in Darfur, but many warn things will get worse after Sudan expelled aid groups it accused of collaborating with the ICC.
The United Nations human rights office will examine whether Sudan’s decision to expel aid groups constitutes a breach of basic human rights.
The ICC’s decision to indict the country’s president for war crimes may force the ruling party to confront its strategy of violence, writes Nick Grono
The US and other countries are urging Sudan to reverse its decision to expel aid groups who help vulnerable populations throughout the country.
Sudan’s president told supporters on Thursday an international call for his arrest on war crimes charges was a ploy set on grabbing the country’s oil.
A defiant Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday dismissed an international arrest warrant against him for war crimes.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Sudan not to expel foreign aid agencies after an arrest warrant was issued for President Omar al-Bashir.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday for war crimes.
Sudan vowed on Wednesday not to work with the International Criminal Court in protest against the arrest warrant facing President Omar al-Bashir.
Tension mounted in Sudan on Wednesday ahead of a decision by the ICC on whether to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told the ICC on Tuesday to ”eat” the arrest warrant it is expected to issue against him.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic refused to plead to genocide charges on Tuesday at the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes court.
United Nations peacekeepers are worried by a military build-up along the Sudan-Chad border, a top official said on Monday.
President Omar al-Bashir is seeking to rally the Sudanese people behind him ahead of a decision by the ICC on whether to seek his arrest.