Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Ok, I Agree
Mar
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Libyan ‘war crimes commander’ killed

Libyan ‘war crimes commander’ killed

NEWS
GUNMEN assassinated an eastern Libyan commander wanted for war crimes yesterday, medics said, underscoring the risks of violent escalation on the ground that poses the biggest challenge to Libya's new unity government. 06Mahmoud al-Werfalli was shot from a car outside a hospital in Benghazi alongside two of his bodyguards, military sources said, amid growing friction between rival factions in eastern Libya. Werfalli was a commander in an elite unit attached to Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), a coalition of forces that has dominated eastern Libya in recent years. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has indicted Werfalli…
Read More
Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Tigray: Ethiopia faces UN war crimes probe

Tigray: Ethiopia faces UN war crimes probe

NEWS
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE United Nations' human rights chief yesterday asked Ethiopia allow monitors into Tigray to investigate reports of killings and sexual violence that may amount to war crimes in the northern region since late 2020. "Victims and survivors of these violations must not be denied their rights to the truth and to justice," Michelle Bachelet said in a statement, expressing her fear that violations could continue without outside scrutiny. Fighting between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's federal troops and forces of the region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), has killed thousands of people, forced hundreds of…
Read More
Feb
04
2021
By The African Mirror
ICC to hand down judgment against former Lord’s Resistance Army commander

ICC to hand down judgment against former Lord’s Resistance Army commander

NEWS
STEPHANIE VAN DER BERG WAR crimes judges will today deliver their verdict in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned top commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group known for extreme violence and forcing women into sexual slavery. Ongwen, 45, faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and could be imprisoned for life if convicted. Judges will not address sentencing on Thursday. The ruling at the International Criminal Court will be the first dealing with crimes by the LRA, New York-based Human Rights Watch said. It highlights the difficulty of trying somebody…
Read More
Dec
12
2020
By The African Mirror
Boko Haram faces ICC war crimes investigation

Boko Haram faces ICC war crimes investigation

NEWS
THE prosecutor of the International Criminal Court would seek a full investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during Nigeria's conflict with the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram. Fatou Bensouda said in a statement her office had completed a preliminary examination and found a "reasonable basis to believe" that Boko Haram and its splinter groups had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, through murder, rape, sexual slavery, and torture. Judges must approve the request. Bensouda's office has been reviewing the conflict between government forces and Boko Haram and its various splinter groups in western and…
Read More
Sep
05
2020
By The African Mirror
Libyan families file U.S. lawsuit accusing LNA leader Haftar of war crimes

Libyan families file U.S. lawsuit accusing LNA leader Haftar of war crimes

NEWS
HUMEYRA PAMUK TWO Libyan families filed a civil lawsuit in a U.S. federal court late on Thursday accusing Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), of war crimes, human rights abuses and torture during a 2016-2017 offensive to seize a key Libyan district, a court filing showed. The complaint, the third filed in a U.S. court against the military commander, is linked to 2016-2017 siege of the Libyan district of Ganfouda, which had been encircled for months as Haftar waged a years-long military campaign to drive Islamist-led opponents from eastern city of Benghazi. The fate of civilians trapped…
Read More
Sep
04
2020
By The African Mirror
EU wants ban on Gambian-born ICC prosecutor must be reversed

EU wants ban on Gambian-born ICC prosecutor must be reversed

NEWS
THE European Union's top diplomat has called on Washington to reverse its sanctions on International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and another member of the ICC, calling the measures "unacceptable and unprecedented". The United States has blacklisted Bensouda over her investigation into whether American forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan, under sanctions authorised by President Donald Trump in June that allow for asset freezes and travel bans. Sanctions were also imposed on Phakiso Mochochoko, the head of the Hague-based ICC Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division. Phakiso Mochochoko "The sanctions ... are unacceptable and unprecedented measures that attempt to obstruct the…
Read More
Aug
28
2020
By The African Mirror
UK police arrest man over alleged Liberian war crimes

UK police arrest man over alleged Liberian war crimes

NEWS
BRITISH police have arrested a man on suspicion of war crimes relating to conflicts in Liberia between 1989 and 2003. Police said detectives had detained the unnamed 45-year-old man in southeast London over alleged offences contrary to the International Criminal Court Act, and he was now in custody. From 1989 to 2003, up to a quarter of a million people in Liberia were killed in a civil war, while thousands more were mutilated and raped. Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is serving 50 years in a British prison after being found guilty by an international tribunal of crimes against humanity.…
Read More
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram