Liberia: Prince Y. Johnson - the Great Escape

Prince Y. Johnson was one of Liberia's most feared and charismatic warlords, and yet he had managed to reinvent himself as a born-again Christian preacher and a popular politician… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: DRC - With the Forgotten People of North Kivu

In North Kivu, the inhabitants of the villages of Maboya-Loya and Kikere have not yet seen a penny of the millions of dollars in reparations paid to Congo by Uganda for the… Read more »

Rwanda: Will the UN Ever Recover Kabuga's Money?

Since May 2022, Balthazar Nduwayezu has been covering the Félicien Kabuga trial for Justiceinfo. He is a Rwandan journalist based in Arusha, Tanzania, who has covered all… Read more »

Africa: Pressure Mounts On the ICC

The investigation into the Israel-Palestine conflict has positioned the International Criminal Court in the forefront of world politics. The institution faces pressures on multiple… Read more »

Rwanda: How the UN Tribunal for Rwanda Shaped the Genocide Narrative

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Congo-Kinshasa: DRC - Victims' Fund Overhauled Amid Embezzlement Suspicions

Despite a reserve of 195 million dollars paid by Uganda, the Special Reparation and Compensation Fund for Victims of Uganda's Armed Activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo… Read more »

Central African Republic: Central African Republic Reparations - What Victims Say About First Payments

In mid-September, the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic announced it had implemented reparations for the victims of two massacres in 2019, the subject of its… Read more »

Liberia: Why It Is So Hard to Appoint a Director for Liberia's War Crimes Court

The first eight months of President Joseph Boakai in office has been dramatic in the process of establishing a war crimes court in Liberia. On May 2, the President signed a law… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Reparations Leave Victims Feeling Sore

Claude Muhindo Sengenya is Justice Info's correspondent in the DRC. He is a trained professional journalist interested in humanitarian, security and transitional justice issues in… Read more »

Uganda: Kwoyelo's Conviction, At Long Last

More than 15 years after his arrest, Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army former rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty by a Ugandan court of 44 counts of atrocity crimes on… Read more »

Sudan: El-Fasher, a Siege 'Comparable to Gaza'

Surrounded, starving, under artillery fire and awaiting an imminent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), El-Fasher, the capital of Darfur, is "hell on earth". On Tuesday 11… Read more »

Rwanda: Pascal Hamenyimana and the Timid Reintegration of a Former 'Génocidaire'

In the wake of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis, Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro covered the trials of genocide suspects before the specialized chambers of the traditional courts and… Read more »

Rwanda: Reconciliation Made in Rwanda

In the wake of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis, Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro covered the trials of genocide suspects before the specialized chambers of the traditional courts and… Read more »

Uganda: The Wild Reparations Order of the ICC

On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander… Read more »

Tunisia: Gaza - Why Tunisia Has Not Referred the Situation to the ICC

Olfa Belhassine has been a correspondent in Tunisia for JusticeInfo.net since 2015. After the 2011 Revolution, she published articles about her experience as a journalist during… Read more »

Sudan: Lundin, the Trial That 'Should Never Have Taken Place'

The Lundin trial has now reached the end of its thirteenth week, with 90 weeks still to go. Torgny Wetterberg, defending Ian Lundin, on November 29 began his presentation of the… Read more »

Guinea: Guinea Massacre Trial - It's Time for the Witnesses

Matthias Raynal is a correspondent in Guinea when, on 28 September 2022, a trial opens for mass crimes, the first in the country's history. 13 years earlier, on the same date, more… Read more »

Africa: The Weak Hope of an ICC Investigation Into Palestine

Janet H Anderson is one of JusticeInfo's correspondents in The Hague. As a freelance journalist she's been covering international justice - Rwanda, The Hague, Sierra Leone, Uganda… Read more »

Angola: Polarized Reconciliation in Angola

A recent controversial search for victims of former guerilla UNITA's internal purges by the Reconciliation commission has further harmed the work and reputation of the commission.… Read more »

Algeria: General Nezzar Is Weakened, but Not Abandoned By Algiers

"The whole world recognises that Algeria was fighting terrorism, with the exception of the Swiss justice system," said the Algerian foreign minister. He was reacting to… Read more »

Rwanda: Philippe Hategekimana Makes Final Statement, Then Goes Silent

Former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana, on trial in Paris for genocide and crimes against humanity, briefly restated his position before his final questioning. Yes, he said,… Read more »

South Sudan: ICC - The Never-Ending Nightmare of Darfur's Victims

This is the first trial for serious crimes committed in Darfur. On June 5 in The Hague, the victims' representatives took the floor in the Ali-Kushayb case at the International… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Two Top Brass On Trial for Crimes Against Humanity in Kasai

An important trial in the "Mulombodi" case opened in Kinshasa on March 20, more than six years after the events. This religious site near Kananga airport was the scene of… Read more »