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Following Laurent Gbagbo's final acquittal at the ICC, there is also the question of the future of the FPI, and more precisely the current party leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan. as reported from Abidjan, Sidy YansaneThe former Prime Minister of Laurent Gbagbo is at odds with his mentor, the latter supporting the diverse edge that…

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 trial of former Ivorian president and former leader of the Young Patriots Charles Blé Goudé began in January 2016. Both were acquitted in the first instance, in early 2019, of crimes against humanity and war crimes, in the context of the violence committed between December 2010 and April 2011 following the announcement of the results of the presidential election. The ICC must decide on these…

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.…

A delegation from the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) will go to Libya on Friday to examine mass graves excavated within the metropolis of Tarhuna, the Libyan military mentioned on Wednesday. The delegation will even examine these concerned in battle crimes in coordination with the Tripoli Prosecutor's Workplace, the media workplace of the government-led Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) operation mentioned in a press release. On July 7, the ICC determined to ship a group to research battle crimes…

Four years after Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi was sentenced to nine years in prison by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and the destruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums, a delegation from the Trust Fund for Victims traveled to Bamako. The states that have signed the Rome Statute contribute to this fund. For Mali, 1.8 billion CFA francs will be granted from January 2021 to the tomboukti victims identified after the Al Faqi trial. About a thousand people, mainly the beneficiaries of the Mausoleum Saints who…

The first hearings of the trial of the leaders against Balaka Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred YekatomRhombot are scheduled for The Hague on 9 February. In the Central African Republic, the International Criminal Court continues to receive the victims of these two alleged perpetrators and carefully records their testimony. as…

Kenyan Paul Gicheru has surrendered to the Dutch authorities, while since March 2015 he has been wanted by the ICC, based in the Netherlands. This lawyer was especially accused by the Court of having witnessed at the time when the current Kenyan Vice President, William Ruto, was prosecuted for crimes against humanity following the 2007-2008 election violence. The prosecution had denied his charges, but the arrest warrant against Paul Gicheru was still pending. Despite his arrest warrant, Paul Gicheru did not hide.…

A UN judge ruled on Wednesday that Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga, who has been in a French prison since May, should be sent to a detention center in The Hague ahead of his trial. "I hereby amend the arrest warrant and the transfer order," said Judge Iain Bonomy of Arusha, Tanzania. "I think there are unusual…

The prosecutor of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom, Fatou Bensouda, ended his go to to Khartoum on Tuesday, October twentieth. First go to of an ICC consultant to the nation for the aim of speaking in regards to the crimes dedicated in the course of the civil struggle in Darfur. as reported from Nairobi, Sébastien NémethThe…