Africa: What's Happening in the Kayishema Case?

Balthazar Nduwayezu (our correspondent in Arusha, Tanzania) 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 »

Central African Republic: The Mokom Fiasco At the ICC

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 »

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 »

Sudan: The Swedish Prosecutor Who Challenged Lundin Oil

It was prosecutor Magnus Elving who opened the probe into Swedish oil company Lundin, accused of complicity in war crimes in southern Sudan. He is now retired and following from a… 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 »

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 »

Rwanda: Final Curtain Falls On Kabuga Trial

It's the end of an era: the last major suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide will not be tried by international justice. On August 7, the Appeals Chamber of the international… Read more »

Rwanda: Pierre Basabosé Is 'Mentally Absent' but Will Be Tried

Former Rwandan soldier and businessman Pierre Basabosé is less well known than Félicien Kabuga, whose trial was definitively stopped by a UN court on August 7 because… 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 »

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 »

Rwanda: Has Trying Kabuga Become Absurd?

There were many objections after the decision by the UN Mechanism in charge of trying Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to continue the trial through an undefined and… Read more »

Rwanda: I Was 10 Years Old in Rwanda in 1994 and Now a Prosecution Witness

A dozen people who were under 15 in 1994 have testified at the genocide trial of former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana before a Paris court. With frozen scenes, lost… Read more »

Central African Republic: Special Court Hands Down First Reparations Decision

After several months of hesitation, the Special Criminal Court on June 16 handed down in Bangui a first reparations decision in its first and only trial. This decision does not… 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 »

Rwanda: Kabuga - Heading for a Palliative Trial?

According to his judges, Félicien Kabuga can be tried but not convicted. On June 6, a UN tribunal ruled that the Rwandan, aged 88 (or 90, according to him), is no longer fit… Read more »

Rwanda: Slowly, the Justice Net Is Closing On the Last Genocide Fugitives

Fulgence Kayishema's arrest on May 24 in South Africa comes 29 years after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It's expected he will be the fourth fugitive from the former UN tribunal for… 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 »

South Africa: Why South Africa Said It Was Leaving the ICC, Then Flip-Flopped

In less than 24 hours, the South African authorities announced their intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before declaring it a misunderstanding. South… Read more »

Angola: Mistaken Identities - How Angola's Reconciliation Process Derailed

Almost two decades after the civil war, the Angolan government launched at the end of 2019 a large "reconciliation plan", supported by transitional justice initiatives that… Read more »

Guinea: Dadis Opposition Gives Its Version of Stadium Massacre

This week, the testimony of Ben Youssouf Keïta struck a chord. He is the third opponent of Moussa Dadis Camara's former regime to testify at the Conakry stadium massacre… Read more »

Benin: Why Treasures Returned to Benin Are Still in Boxes

The November 2021 restitution of 26 art works stolen by French colonists from the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, was celebrated as a model. But these treasures that… Read more »