Perusing my morning read, I see that your government plans next week to put Michael Ignatieff to an early test on the HST. What a brilliant chess move! Now that we’re agreed on that one, I’d like to pitch, for the third time,...
The violence broke out after the opposition leader claimed fraud in a presidential election [AFP] The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has asked judges to allow him to launch a formal investigation into...
Denmark says it has no choice but to invite the leaders of Sudan, Zimbabwe and Burma to the upcoming climate change conference, given that the conference is a United Nations-sponsored affair. The three leaders are banned from...
We cannot say we are wretched because we are black. You can't accuse Annan of patronising racism, or Ocampo of neo-colonialism. I don't think African radicals and politicians very much like this world, because it has cornered...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Witnesses testifying against two Congolese warlords at the International Criminal Court have been threatened and the court does not have the resources to fully protect them, a senior investigator...
The reckoning: the battle for the international criminal court - Lumière International Special: Erasmus Prize 2009 Movies that Matter/Studium Generale Pamela Yates, Paco Onis & Peter Kinoy, US 2009, 95 min., English spoken....
Published Date: 25 November 2009 TWO Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers to wipe out a village in an attack that left more than 200 men, women and children dead, a prosecutor told judges yesterday at the International...
Interethnic violence in DR Congo has claimed the lives of 60,000 people since 1999, NGOs say [EPA] Two Congolese men accused of directing an attack on a village, during which at least 200 people were killed, women raped and...
opinion Right from the beginning, I was very unhappy that Kenya had signed the Rome treaty that seemed to reverse our independence into a corner controlled by the imperialists. For the last one full year, Luis Moreno-Ocampo's...
JURIST] The Kenyan Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review [official website] unveiled the initial Harmonized Draft Constitution [text, PDF] last week. The changes are intended [Xinhua report] to reduce the widespread...