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The final day of the African Union summit has been dedicated to the issue of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, charged with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and torture.
A law against female circumcision will soon be enacted, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
Protestant churches in Kenya have dispatched one of their leaders to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to deliver a one-million signature petition urging investigations of post-election violence.
The co-chairperson of the Parliamentary Select Committee on constitutional reform, Douglas Mwonzora, on Friday said comments made by Robert Mugabe that the new constitution must be anchored on the Kariba Draft, were just a reflection of Mugabe's personal view point.
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Lui Moreno Ocampo on Friday asked Kenya for a 12-month plan showing how the country intends to bring key culprits of the 2007 election violence to justice.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has finally concluded public hearings and submitted a report of its works with recommendations.
Claims that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is "targeting" Africa, and is in the service of Western interests, are the result of disinformation, according a Brazilian ICC judge, Sylvia Steiner, interviewed in Friday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".
John Morlu came to the position of Auditor General of Liberia with clean records and credentials having won the admiration of the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the backing from the international community.
African leaders in Libya were on Friday hotly debating a draft resolution by the African Union (AU) which will, if adopted, deal a major blow to the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war criminals in Africa.
One Saturday 40 years ago, Kenya's most promising leader, Tom Mboya, was gunned down in a busy Nairobi street.
PETER Michael Hitschmann, the former police reservist who was jailed after the discovery of an arms cache on his property, was released on Thursday and vowed not to be a state witness in the trial of Roy Bennett, the MDC Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate.
THE case of six MDC-T activists and a freelance journalist accused of terrorism was on Wednesday referred to the Supreme Court amid revelations of how they were allegedly abducted and tortured by suspected state security agents in violation of their constitutional rights.
After failing on two occasions to pass the much-talked about and somehow controversial Threshold Bill, the Liberian Senate yesterday concurred with the House of Representatives to pass the bill, but with modification and condition that no county get not less than two seats.
THE anti-reform proponents in the inclusive government are now coming out of the woodwork and seem not to be embarrassed at all to flaunt their reactionary credentials.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced former investigator for Defence, Leonidas Nshogoza to ten months in jail.
A court in Kenya ruled on Tuesday that the assets of Felicien Kabuga should remain frozen until the ICTR completes the trials of suspects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
LRA Rebel leader Joseph Kony could be tried in Uganda by the International Criminal Court (ICC) if arrested.
THE legitimacy and credibility of the controversial constitutional process further waned this week after clashes between parliament administrators and the select parliamentary committee spearheading the task.
The Liberia National Police have been accused by a local church of being in cahoots with alleged robbers who reportedly robbed the church of over US14, 000.00
SIXTEEN villagers from Nyanga District, Manicaland, have approached the courts seeking to recover their property allegedly looted by Zanu PF supporters in the countdown to last year's bloody presidential election run-off campaign.
GOVERNMENT has withdrawn the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill which demanded foreign owned mines to cede 51% of their shareholding to locals as it seeks to lure external investors.
LAWYERS representing freelance journalists barred from covering a Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) Summit in Victoria Falls despite a High Court ruling the Media and Information Commission (MIC) null and void are seeking confirmation of the provisional order as permanent after Media, Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu opposed the ruling out of time.
FAILURE by the President's Office to gazette the Ministerial Responsibilities for Acts of Parliament is creating accountability problems over which ministry is responsible for executing certain parliamentary acts, it has emerged.
Massive preparations are being planned in Monrovia by certain elements within the Mandingo Community to stage a non-violent street demonstration in protest to the prolonged detention in Guinea of the former presidential candidate for the Progressive Democratic Party for Liberia (PROTEMP), Mr.Sekou Demante Conneh.
The Liberian public must have bowed recently in the pool of disbelief and shock when some information scavengers created the impression that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s appointment of Marc A. Amblard as Inspector General of the Liberia National Police was ill-conceived. What the scavengers did to achieve their objective was to mutilate the Inspector General-Designate’s profile ...
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