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  • July 4
  • IPS Africa: Continent's Leaders Will Refuse to Arrest Bashir

    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.

  • July 3
  • New Vision Uganda: Museveni Announces Law Against Female Circumcision

    A law against female circumcision will soon be enacted, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

  • ENI Kenya: One Million Call for Probe of Polls Violence

    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.

  • SW Radio Zimbabwe: Civil Society Rejects Mugabe Over Constitution

    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.

  • Nation Kenya: International Prosecutor Asks Govt for Plan on Polls Violence

    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 Informer Liberia: Truth Commission Calls for Prosecutions

    The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has finally concluded public hearings and submitted a report of its works with recommendations.

  • AIM Mozambique: International Court Denies Targetting Africa

    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".

  • Analyst Liberia: Auditor-General Under Fire

    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.

  • SW Radio Africa: Libya Wants Continent to Snub World Court

    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.

  • Nation Kenya: We Must Fight Impunity [editorial]

    One Saturday 40 years ago, Kenya's most promising leader, Tom Mboya, was gunned down in a busy Nairobi street.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: State Witness Vows Not to Testify Against Bennett

    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.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Activists' Case Referred to the Supreme Court

    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.

  • Analyst Liberia: Senate Finally Passes "Threshold Bill'

    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.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Anti-Reformists Bare Their True Colours [editorial]

    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.

  • New Times Rwanda: Nshogoza Gets Ten Months in Jail

    The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced former investigator for Defence, Leonidas Nshogoza to ten months in jail.

  • New Times Rwanda: Court Upholds Freeze of Kabuga's Assets

    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.

  • New Vision Uganda: Kony Could Be Tried in Country

    LRA Rebel leader Joseph Kony could be tried in Uganda by the International Criminal Court (ICC) if arrested.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Candid Comment - Constitution-Making Process Illegitimate [column]

    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.

  • Analyst Liberia: Police Accused Of Conniving With Alleged Robbers

    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

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Villagers Demand U.S.$850 Compensation for Lost Property

    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.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Govt Withdraws Mining Indigenisation Bill

    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.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Journalists Appeal for Final Order

    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.

  • Zimbabwe Independent Zimbabwe: Govt Delays Gazetting of Ministry Responsibilities

    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.

  • Analyst Liberia: Planned Demonstration In the Making for Sekou Demante Conneh?s Release

    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.

  • Analyst Liberia: Here Comes The New Police Chief - Who He Really Is? What Can He Do?

    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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