A troubling new United Nations finding has turned attention to a record ransom payment. UN monitors say an estimated $50 million ransom paid to free a hostage kidnapped in Mali in late 2025 has since helped fuel a wider al-Qaeda offensive across West Africa. This story matters for South Africans watching events unfold on the […]
Mahamat Said Abdel Kani a former rebel commander in the Central African Republic has appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, Kani is being investigated for his role in the recent series of rebel attacks in the country which has led to the fleeing of refugees to other neighboring countries. Kani, 50, is […]
Paul Gicheru has denied all accusations against him as regards bribing of a withness and withness tampering which is a serious felony in the eyes of the court. He supposedly corruptly affected indictment observers to retract their declaration by offering incentives of up to 1,000,000 Kenyan shillings “The charges read out to me are false, […]
International Criminal Court is set to begin investigation on the lekki shooting, this alleged shooting by the soldiers was during the #EndSARS protest that allegedly resulted into over 5 deaths. The revelation was made public by an eyewitness. Live projectiles were accounted for to have been utilized at times. While that was occurring, the Lagos […]
Malian jihadist police chief, Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 42, tried on Tuesday with the aid of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for not possible struggle crimes committed against humanity — together with direct and personal involvement with sexual slavery, severe corporal punishment, dismembering and torture when the place used to […]
Laurent Gbagbo, the former Ivorian President, has been irrevocably removed from the electoral listing and hence, will no longer be able to present himself in the upcoming presidential elections per an Ivorian judiciary ruling that sees him still in exile. The information used to be recently verified by way of the Independent Electoral Commission with […]
Sudan will cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s efforts to prosecute those wanted for warfare crimes and genocide in connection with the Darfur conflict, Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok stated Saturday. Hamdok’s pledge came in the course of a televised tackle on the first anniversary of him assuming the put up of high minister. “The […]