International justice

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday, March 31, upheld the acquittal, announced in 2019, of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, who has not been charged with crimes against humanity, and Charles Blé Goudé, former leader of the youth movement. the judges dismissed Fatoo Bensouda's appeal. A setback for the ICC prosecutor who leaves office on June 15.…

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.…

The hearings of the UN International Court of Justice on the dispute between Kenya and Somalia ended on Thursday 18 March. Somalia made its final remarks, still in the absence of Kenya, which refused to lodge its case. The case is now under advice. The verdict should be known in a few months. The last hearing before the UN…

On March 13, Congo-Brazzaville awarded the Chinese Sangha Mining Development the exploitation of three iron deposits in the north of the country. These mining permits were first awarded to three companies linked to Australian interests before the Congolese government took them back in November and angered the miners. They are threatening the Congo with lawsuits and demanding billions of dollars in compensation. The case could lead…

This is the first testimony heard in the open trial in mid-February against Patrice Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Yekatom of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The two Central Africans are being prosecuted for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in 2013 and 2014. Prosecutors have called for a victim of the December 5, 2013 attack in Bangui.…

Kenya and Somalia were to meet before the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Monday and for ten days. The demarcation of their maritime border is at stake when significant natural resources lie at sea, but Kenya ultimately decided it would not argue. In a two-page letter sent to the court register last Thursday, the Kenyan justice minister explains his last-minute retreat: technical limitations related to the health situation, delays in the preparation of hearings given the pandemic, but also the presence on…

The International Criminal Court of Appeals will deliver its judgment on 31 March at 15, The Hague time. The charge of crimes against humanity committed during the violence after the 2010 and 2011 elections, the former head of state and his short-lived minister were acquitted in January 2019. But the prosecutor had appealed against this acquittal. Therefore, reply on March 31st. What are the possible…

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…