The first trial for atrocities committed in Darfur has opened at the International Criminal Court nearly 20 years after violence tore through the Sudanese region. A suspected former leader of the pro-government Janjaweed militia has been charged with 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman denies the charges. Sudanese human rights…
The International Court of Justice has fixed March 7, 2022 to begin hearing on allegations of genocide in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ICJ, which is an organ of the United Nations and sits in The Hague, Netherlands, is to investigate complaint lodged by Ukraine against Russia. In a statement; the ICJ said the hearings will…
Somalia has won the legal battle over maritime border dispute with Kenya of over forty years. The case concerned a section of the Indian Ocean, measuring about thirty-eight thousand square miles, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas. The International Court of Justice rule in favour of Somalia, although Kenya had raised questions of…
Britain’s Karim Khan has been sworn-in as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, facing huge challenges, including investigations into the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan and the Philippines. Fifty-one years old Khan who is a former defence lawyer for the Hague-based tribunal, was elected by ICC member states to serve a nine-year tenure at the world’s only…
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda said the probe would cover events in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since 2004 Last month, the Hague-based court ruled that it could exercise its criminal jurisdiction over the territories. Israel rejected…