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The final day of the African Union summit has been dedicated to the issue of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, charged with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and torture.
The African Union is ending its co-operation with the International Criminal Court for charging President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan with war crimes. Al-Bashir is accused of alleged atrocities in the Darfur region.
No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed.
A law against female circumcision will soon be enacted, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
Protestant churches in Kenya have dispatched one of their leaders to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to deliver a one-million signature petition urging investigations of post-election violence.
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Lui Moreno Ocampo on Friday asked Kenya for a 12-month plan showing how the country intends to bring key culprits of the 2007 election violence to justice.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has finally concluded public hearings and submitted a report of its works with recommendations.
Claims that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is "targeting" Africa, and is in the service of Western interests, are the result of disinformation, according a Brazilian ICC judge, Sylvia Steiner, interviewed in Friday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".
The 22 people who are taking their former employer to court for having been tested for HIV without their consent, wants to be compensated for the damage they suffered, said Linda Dumba Chicalu, project lawyer at the Legal Assistance Centre's (LAC) AIDS Law Unit, which will represent them in court.
Following allegations by rights watchdog Human Rights Watch and western media over a reproductive health bill that is currently before parliament, parliament has strongly denied the existence of articles of compulsory HIV testing and sterilisation.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Federal Republic of Ethiopia and the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania will be honoured for their contribution in liberating Rwanda, 15 years ago.
African leaders in Libya were on Friday hotly debating a draft resolution by the African Union (AU) which will, if adopted, deal a major blow to the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war criminals in Africa.
One Saturday 40 years ago, Kenya's most promising leader, Tom Mboya, was gunned down in a busy Nairobi street.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced former investigator for Defence, Leonidas Nshogoza to ten months in jail.
A court in Kenya ruled on Tuesday that the assets of Felicien Kabuga should remain frozen until the ICTR completes the trials of suspects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
LRA Rebel leader Joseph Kony could be tried in Uganda by the International Criminal Court (ICC) if arrested.
SIXTEEN villagers from Nyanga District, Manicaland, have approached the courts seeking to recover their property allegedly looted by Zanu PF supporters in the countdown to last year's bloody presidential election run-off campaign.
Reacting to public outcries relative to the reticence of the Liberian Government on the detention of Sekou Conneh in Guinea, former leader of one of the warring factions in Liberia, Information Minister Dr. Laurence Bropleh has set the record straight, saying that the detained Conneh is being treated as Guinean national and not a Liberian citizen.
An executive of the New Deal Movement, Professor Alaric K. Tokpa is suggesting and appealing to the National Legislature, Liberia's lawmaking boy, to consider making 'Torture' a crime in Liberia.
TWO weeks ago (on Sunday June 14), Vanguard published an article in which I complained about the fact that the innocent Ogoni elders - Edward Kobani, Albert Badey, Sam Orage and Theophilus Orage - who were assassinated in l994 by supporters of the late writer/activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, had been forgotten...
SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero visited Nigeria and Togo a fortnight ago. His visit to Nigeria was marked by the usually drab diplomatic talks and official declarations.
"Rwanda descends into bloody chaos," wrote the Chicago Tribune of April 8th, 1994. "Deadly Reality, Rwanda is Dying," screamed an editorial of L.A Times on 4th May, 1994.
Life couldn't be more cruel to the over 1650 destitute that stay at the Kaduna Destitute Home when part of the centre went up in flames killing seven and leaving scores with different degrees of burn. Their condition was further compounded by the onset of the rains which begins and ends on the remaining inmates because they are yet to find alternative accommodation.
Although provincial police commissioner Mzwandile Petros often visits crime scenes, he was reluctant to attend the site where the body of three-year-old Viwe Mnembe was found at the weekend.
A TOTAL of sh1.7b has been earmarked to compensate people whose body parts were cut-off by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
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