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Mar

2024

Canada announces fresh sanctions against Russia over Navalny’s death

Canada announced a fresh round of sanctions against Russia over the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The latest sanctions will target six Russian officials, including senior officials and high-ranking employees of Russia's prosecution, judicial and correctional services, Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement.

Mar

2023

By The African Mirror

ICC expected to launch war crimes cases against Russians over Ukraine war

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ANTHONY DEUTSCH and MIKE COLLETT-WHITE THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is planning to seek the arrest of Russian officials for forcibly deporting children from Ukraine and targeting civilian infrastructure, a source said, in what would be the first international war crimes cases arising from Moscow's invasion. The source said the arrest warrants could include the crime of genocide and were expected to arrive in the "short term" if the court prosecutor's request was approved by a pre-trial judge at the Hague-based court. The office of the prosecutor at the ICC declined to comment. Russia's defence ministry did not immediately respond to…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Analysis: Southern Africa calls the tune as great power suitors queue up

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TIM COCKS and CARIEN DUPLESSIS SOUTH Africa and its neighbours were at the centre of a tussle for influence this week when top Russian and U.S. officials visited, offering a rare moment of leverage for governments on a continent more used to being buffeted by events than wooed. With a war in Europe pitting invading Russian forces against Ukraine's army supplied with Western arms, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen were both on the hunt for broader international support. For the countries of southern Africa, which maintain strong ideological and historical sympathies for Russia but…