Justice

Amadé Ouérémi was sentenced on Thursday, April 13, to life in prison by Abidjan's criminal court. This militia leader was responsible for the massacre of several hundred people on March 28 and 29, 2011 in Duékoué Carrefour. More than 800 dead according to the Red Cross, 300 according to the UN. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre…

In France, the verdict has just been announced at the trial of the bombing of the French camp in Bouaké. At the end of almost three weeks of trial, the court has just sentenced the three defendants, Yury Sushkin, the Belarusian mercenary, Ange Gnanduillet and Patrice Ouei, the two Ivorian officers, to life in prison. With our…

In custody for eight years, Amadé Ouérémi will be stuck in her fate this Thursday, April 15 in the afternoon. The brigadier from the West Ivory Coast, accused of being responsible for the massacre of hundreds of people on March 28 and 29, 2011 in Duékoué, is sentenced to life in prison. Wednesday was the seventh day of his trial, with the indictment and the submissions.…

After the then Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and the Minister of the Interior Dominique de Villepin, Michèle Alliot-Marie was at the helm on Tuesday afternoon, April 13. With always the same question at the heart of the hearings: why did France release the alleged pilots made available by Togo, who, however, had warned through the channels of three ministries? The testimony of the former Minister…

At the trial of the bombing of the French camp Bouaké, the interrogation of witnesses will end on Tuesday, April 13. After former Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, it was former Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin's turn to testify. He says he is no longer a lawyer. Quoted as a witness at the trial of the attack on the…

On Tuesday, the military court ruled in favor of former President Blaise Compaoré for attacking state security, complicity in the murder and concealing corpses in the case of the assassination of former head of state Thomas Sankara. Gilbert Diendéré, formerly Blaise Compaoré's right-hand man, is charged with complicity in murder, concealment of corpses, attack on state security. A total of 14 people will participate in court…

Koffi Olomide's appeal procedure has been postponed again for six months in France. The King of Congolese Rumba was to be tried again on appeal on Monday, March 12, for sexually abusing four of his former dancers. In October last year, the trial against Koffi Olomide was postponed for six months due to his lawyer having another…

Former Chadian President Hissène Habré has been asked to be released from prison for six months, mainly for health reasons. If granted, the former head of state could be released on Tuesday, April 13, for Ramadan. But the demand goes badly with the victims of the one who is serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity.…

The trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, which left ten dead (nine French soldiers and one American civilian), enters its third and final week on Monday before the Assize Court in Paris. The French politicians of the time will be heard as witnesses: Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and three ministers.…

Two years ago in Sudan, a revolution led to the fall of President Omar al-Bashir after 30 years of rule. In Atbara, a small town in the north of the country that was the epicenter of the revolution, members of NISS, the dismissed president's security services, have been on trial for the murder of protesters. as reported from…