September 10
Central African Republic: What Happens When the ICC Suddenly Stops Your Prosecution?
How much should you be compensated if the prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) suddenly decides to stop prosecuting you? In Maxime Mokom's case, he thinks about… Read more »
September 09
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 »
September 03
West Africa: Why Gambia Suffered a Setback At Ecowas Parliament for Special Tribunal
The July decision of the regional ECOWAS parliament not to support a special tribunal in charge of trying the crimes of former Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh was a blow to the Gambian… Read more »
August 27
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 »
July 29
Rwanda: The Residual Debacles of the Residual Mechanism
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 »
July 23
Africa: Who Is Julia Sebutinde, the ICJ Judge Who Says 'No'?
In 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has taken three landmark decisions to protect the Palestinian population, including warning Israel against the risk of being… Read more »
July 05
Mali: Is the ICC Al Hassan Judgement a Mess or the Future?
In their judgement against former Malian Jihadist Abdoulaziz Al-Hassan, the three judges of the International Criminal Court never fully agreed. And when two of them agreed, it… Read more »
June 25
Guinea: In Guinea, Time for Defence Arguments in Massacre Trial
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 »
June 21
Central African Republic: Central African Republic - Why the Truth Commission Was Dismissed
Rodrigue Le Roi Benga is a journalist specialising in justice and human rights, science, economics and the environment. A graduate of the Department of Information and… Read more »
June 17
Congo-Kinshasa: How Three Senior Officials Escaped Justice - Kasai
Based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Caleb Kazadi has been Justice Info\'s correspondent since 2021. With a degree in International Relations from the University of… Read more »
June 13
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 »
June 10
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 »
May 28
Guinea: Prosecution Asks for Life Sentences For Stadium Massacre
On trial for the 2009 massacre in Conakry stadium, former junta leader and ex-president of Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara, risks life in prison, as the prosecutor requested at the end… Read more »
May 27
Liberia: The Evidence Battleground for Liberia's War Crimes Court
On May 2nd 2024, Liberian president Joseph Boakai signed an executive order to establish a War and Economic Crimes Court - a historic and long-awaited move in the path of… Read more »
May 17
Gambia: Gambia - the End of the Wait-and-See Strategy?
On April 22, two bills expected to kickstart the prosecution process for crimes committed under the 22-year rule of former President Yahya Jammeh were passed at the Gambian… Read more »
May 16
Gambia: Ousman Sonko Gets Maximum Punishment
Mariam Sankanu is a Gambian investigative journalist with Malagen, The Gambia's premier media platform specialised in investigative journalism and fact-checking. She had previously… Read more »
May 14
Rwanda: Witnesses Defect From the Nkunduwimye Trial
Gaëlle Ponselet, a journalist who has been specializing on judicial news for some 10 years, covers a large number of trials taking place in Brussels, whether they be conflicts… Read more »
April 29
Eritrea: Waiting for Eritrean Human Traffickers' Trials in the Netherlands
A year and six months after a string of arrests of human traffickers accused of holding families living in the Netherlands to ransom, Dutch courts are making slow progress towards… Read more »
April 30
Nigeria: The ICC On Nigeria - Years of Words, but No Action
How did Africa's most populous country get buried in the recesses of the ICC? Focusing on Ukraine and Gaza, Prosecutor Karim Khan seems to have forgotten a case opened by his… Read more »
April 22
Rwanda: At Belgian Trial, Two Former Interahamwe Leaders Dodge Testifying
Dieudonné Niyitegeka and Eugène Mbarushimana are the only two surviving former members of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the… Read more »
April 05
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 »
April 02
Rwanda: 2,200 'Génocidaires' Being Released in 2024, Who Are They?
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 »
March 29
Guinea: Was the Stadium Massacre a Crime Against Humanity?
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 »
March 15
Ethiopia: Martin Schibbye (Journalist) - 'Sweden Believed in Lundin'
Six months have passed since the start of the longest trial in Swedish history, which will last another two years. Time for a first assessment by one of its most assiduous… Read more »
March 14
Gambia: Sonko Trial - Final Words Before the Verdict
Closing arguments have now ended in the trial of former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. "If a country as rich and… Read more »