By The Independent Team In the Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reversed a ruling that allowed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend only parts of his trial in The Hague. Kenyatta’s trial begins in February and his lawyers argued that attending the trial would prevent him from governing …
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By Andrew M. Mwenda How the International Criminal Court is seeking to usurp our sovereignty and why progressive Africa should reject it Last week, the African Union summit in Addis Ababa resolved to ask the UN Security Council to defer the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya at the …
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By Julius Odeke The International Criminal Commission (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda today formally opened an investigation into alleged crimes committed on the territory of Mali since January 2012. This decision is the result of the preliminary examination of the situation in Mali that the Office had been conducting since July …
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By Julius Odeke President Yoweri Museveni has proposed a three-pronged solution to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; namely the involvement of local communities who bear the brunt of fighting and its aftermath; regional effort involving the DRC and her neighbouring countries and the international effort involving regional effort and …
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By The Independent Team Rwandan-born warlord Bosco Ntaganda was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday and was being flown to The Hague to stand trial on charges of war crimes in eastern Congo in 2002 and 2003. Ntaganda surrendered to the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, …
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Kampala, Uganda | Joan Akello| Hon. Justice Julia Sebutinde at the dinner held in her honour won the Uganda Law Society Outstanding Award as the first Ugandan Judge at the International Court of Justice at the Hague on 19th Oct. Her speech was specifically delivered to female lawyers though even males …
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By Vivian E. Asedri African governments need to take full responsibility for impunity and shielding mass murderers One of the parables my village elders commonly use in their allegories to impact wisdom and morals to youths is: “Flies always go to where the stench of the rotten meat is.” The …
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By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi Why is the government fighting hard to show that opposition leader Kizza Besigye attacked security first before he was brutally assaulted on April 28? That is the question many are asking since condemnation started pouring in over the macabre arrest of the Forum for Democratic Change …
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By Andrew M. Mwenda The recent indictment of leading and powerful Kenyan politicians by the International Criminal Court (ICC) presents as a serious dilemma. By all conventional accounts, Kenya is one of the most successful democracies in Africa. It has a free press. It has a multiparty political system. It …
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By Agencies International community applauds as third top Rwanda rebel is arrested Police in France on Monday arrested Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the French government said. Mbarushimana ‘was arrested [on Monday} on French territory’ by …
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