South Sudan: 'I Was Responsible for What Was Beneath the Surface - Not Above'

Using maps, drilling data, and technical explanations, Alexandre Schneiter, the former CEO of Lundin Oil, tried to distance himself from responsibility for war crimes around Block… Read more »

Gambia: A Special Court in Search of Funds

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 »

Rwanda: Kinshasa and Kigali Face Off in African Courts

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 »

Congo-Kinshasa: The People of Masuika Hears Two Verdicts

The two men prosecuted for the martyrdom of a traditional chief in 2017 had their sentences reduced to 20 years in prison by the military court on March 10. The Congolese… Read more »

Equatorial Guinea: Equatorial Guinea and Jammeh's Equation

The prospect of trying former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has grown bigger with the plan of a tribunal supported by the regional political organization ECOWAS. But there's a… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Aid Freeze - How Many Dead?

Since the end of January, thousands of people across the globe have received a stop work order as a result of the new US administration's decision to "pause" global aid for 90… Read more »

Sudan: How Lundin's Filmed Trip in Sudan Backfired in Court

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Congo-Kinshasa: Modern-Day Gold Rush in North Kivu - What the Law Can Do

Is there a role for international law in what's happening in North Kivu, and more generally in international peace, at a time when Rwanda seems to have drawn the conclusion of a… Read more »

Tunisia: Tunisia - Why Bensedrine Is in Jail

Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission between 2014 and 2018, has been in pre-trial detention since 1 August 2024. Her lawyers have been… Read more »

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 »