Sudan’s rulers agree to hand over ex-President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges BY TESFANEWS * A top Sudanese transitional government official has announced on Tuesday that they have agreed with rebel groups to hand over ex-President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court. Al-Bashir, who was overthrown by the […]
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BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN When US National Security Advisor John “The Walrus” Bolton threatened the International Criminal Court with US Sanctions, many of us here in Africa cheered, long having given up hope that the ICC would ever be held to even the slightest account, least of all for its crimes against our continent.
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Tribunal has not lived up to hopes of international community, Moscow says, day after ICC report on Crimea annexation. By TesfaNews, President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which prosecutes war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. The President instructed Russia’s foreign ministry to notify the […]
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By TesfaNews, Just over two weeks after Burundi confirmed its intentions to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), South Africa has formally notified the United Nations (UN) secretary general, Ban Ki-moon about its desire to quit the world body.
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By Tanja R. Müller, For those who follow the politics of Eritrea and the Horn of Africa, the verdict of the second report by the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea (COIE), that Eritrea has indeed committed crimes against humanity in a widespread and systematic way, was a foregone conclusion. The COIE, established […]
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By Bronwyn Bruton, As expected, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea (the COIE) has recommended to the Human Rights Council that Eritrea be referred to the International Criminal Court and that the human rights situation in Eritrea constitutes a “threat to international peace and security”. The COIE is a panel of three independent […]
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By BBC, A UN inquiry has accused Eritrean of systematic crimes against humanity. The commission, which was not allowed to enter Eritrea, said it believed as many as 400,000 people were being enslaved, forcibly conscripted into the military. It also documented torture, rape, murder and forced disappearances and recommended an investigation by the International Criminal […]
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By Yemane Gebreab | Presidential Adviser, A three-person panel, called the “Commission of Inquiry” (COI), is campaigning to take yet another African country, this time Eritrea, to the International Criminal Court. The COI claims that it “has reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in Eritrea since 1991.” Yet it has no […]
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