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 »

Gambia: Member of Jammeh's Notorious 'Hit Squad' Turns Himself In

After eight years of exile Bora Colley, a former "Jungler" member of President Yahya Jammeh's hit squad, last month turned himself in to the Gambia Armed Forces. The event raises… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Gambia: Ousman Sonko, the 'Mastermind'

On March 4, the prosecution concluded its closing arguments in the trial of Ousman Sonko, in Switzerland. They asked for the former interior minister of the Gambia to be sentenced… Read more »

Gambia: How Gambia's Truth Commission Findings Shaped the Sonko Trial

The trial of Ousman Sonko, former Interior minister of The Gambia, resumes today in Switzerland. Parties are expected to present their closing arguments. A striking fact of the… Read more »

Guinea: Guinea - Frightened Witnesses Desert the Trial

A new phase of the 28 September 2009 massacre trial starts this Monday, February 12, in Guinea with the appearance of a first witness - but in close session. Many fear for their… Read more »

Gambia: Gambian Trial Starts in Switzerland for Crimes Against Humanity

Julia Crawford is a journalist and translator for JusticeInfo.net since June 2015. She is an experienced journalist, editor and journalism trainer, specialized in African affairs… Read more »

Gambia: Sonko Trial - What Can We Expect From Swiss Justice?

In this podcast produced with Asymmetrical Haircuts, two Justice Info correspondents take the floor. Mariam Sankanu, who is covering the post-Truth Commission period in Gambia. And… Read more »

Guinea: Guinea - Baffoé, One Witness With Two Versions

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 »

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 »

Guinea: Conakry Massacre Trial Resumes

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 »

Gambia: Why After Four Years Identity of the Exhumed at Army Barracks Remains Unknown?

In four years since the mediatized exhumation of seven bodies in a military camp near Banjul, neither the Truth and Reconciliation commission nor any institution in The Gambia have… Read more »

Gambia: The Disappeared in the Gambia, a Missing Investigation

In its recently disclosed implementation plan, the Gambian government says it will set up a task force to complete and expand the work accomplished by the Truth commission on… Read more »

Liberia: Appeals Court Convicts Liberian Alieu Kosiah of Crimes Against Humanity

A Swiss appeals court on June 1 confirmed a 20-year prison sentence for Alieu Kosiah, former commander of an armed group in Liberia in the 1990s. Kosiah was already the first… Read more »

Gambia: Is the Country a Step Closer to Moving On With Trials and Reparations?

On May 12, the Gambian president Adama Barrow has issued an implementation plan of the 2021 recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. He has… Read more »

Guinea: Conakry's Groundbreaking Trial Threatened By Financial Issues

In Guinea, eight months after the start of a historic trial, some lawyers - for both the defence and the victims - have never been paid. On 29 May, they went on strike. They are… Read more »