Sudan: The First Darfur Trial Ended At the ICC

The first trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, came to an end, 20 years after the charged crimes. During the closing statements, from 11… Read more »

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 »

Rwanda: Justice Info Publishes the Report Supposedly Behind the Genocide Plot in Rwanda

Thierry Cruvellier is Editor-in-Chief of Justiceinfo.net. For more than 20 years, he has been covering international and transitional justice for more than twenty years. He is an… Read more »

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

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

South Sudan: Lundin Trial - 'How Can They Believe Those Reports?'

Now the voice of South Sudanese victims is being heard in the big Swedish trial for complicity in war crimes that opened a year ago against two top bosses of the Lundin oil group.… 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »