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Niger’s CNDH confirms rape case

The National Human Rights Commission released a report on this on Friday, April 2. The Chadian authorities have reacted: they acknowledge the facts and promise sanctions. However, they urge not to generalize so as not to damage the image of the Chadian army. The facts took place in March in the Tillabéri region of western…

The ICC Appeals Chamber confirms

In the decision read by Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji on Wednesday, the Board of Appeal of the International Criminal Court states that it rejects the prosecutor's appeal and confirms the decision at first instance. In January 2019, the former Ivorian president and former leader of the Young Patriots was acquitted. .

The ICC confirms in its appeal the 30-year sentence from

The International Criminal Court upheld its decision on Tuesday, March 30. The former warlord and general of the Congolese army is guilty of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ituri in 2002 and 2003. At the time, the nickname Terminator was one of the leaders of the UPC, one of the militias involved in the civil war. No mitigating circumstances were acknowledged.…

The Paris prosecutor’s workplace confirms that the opponent

An investigation was launched in France after the death of the main opponent of Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who was re-elected in the first ballot according to the preliminary results of the election commission. Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas died on his arrival in France by medical plane on March 22, the day after the presidential election in Congo-Brazzaville. The opponent's causes of death have raised questions…

The Moroccan Court of Cassation confirms the verdicts of 19 Sahrawi activists

The Moroccan Court of Cassation upheld the sentences handed down in 2013 to 19 separatists from Western Sahara, ranging from twenty years to life imprisonment. Saharawi activists are accused of taking part in the violence in the Gdim Izik camp near the border in southern Morocco in 2010. This verdict comes against the background of renewed conflicts between the Saharawis and Moroccans.…

General Lecointre confirms the “terrorist” nature of Sophie Pétronin’s kidnappers

Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces, General François Lecointre insisted on the terrorist nature of "Islamist insurgents" in Mali, thus responding to the remarks of former hostage Sophie Pétronin. "French soldiers would never have the idea of ​​taking hostages for the release of French prisoners." This is the strong response that the Chief of Staff of the French armies wanted to give Sophie Petronin this Wednesday. Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces,…