International Commission of Jurists (ICJ): Ethiopian Leaders to Face a Trial...
By Betre Yacob. The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) reported to have begun to work to bring Ethiopian authorities to justice for having committed a genocide in the Ogaden region. The...
View ArticleUprising in Sudan: What we know now
By Eric Reeves Over the past month the fierce uprising that began in Sudan in late September has largely been quelled by the Khartoum regime’s brutal security forces. Ruthless intimidation by these...
View ArticleDiscovery of mass grave rocked TPLF warlords and shocked Ethiopians.
*Number of exhumed remains rising… Report compiled by Getahune Bekele-South Africa On Tuesday morning 31 December 2013, mortified Army chief-of-staff Gen Samora and Deputy PM D. Mekonen were spotted...
View ArticleMass Grave Discovered in Addis Ababa
By Betre Yacob A mass grave has been discovered in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, containing at least 6 bodies of young men, who may have been executed in the past few years. The identities of...
View ArticleKenyatta at the ICC: Is Justice Deferred, Justice Denied? By Alemayehu G Mariam
I am getting a little jittery over the repeated delays, postponements and all the backpedalling talk about “false evidence” and “lying witnesses” in the Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta International Criminal...
View ArticleAnalysis: Kenyatta escapes the ICC, and shows others how it’s done
Question: what’s the best way to escape international justice? Answer: Get yourself elected president, of course. At least that was Uhuru Kenyatta’s solution, and it worked. By SIMON ALLISON. It’s all...
View ArticleInternational court convicts Congo rebel leader
The International Criminal Court has convicted a rebel leader of charges including murder and pillage during a deadly attack on a village in eastern Congo, but acquitted him of rape, sexual slavery and...
View ArticleLibya: Niger extradites Gadhafi’s son al-Saadi
At the time of the revolt that brought down his father, al-Saadi headed a brigade of special forces that was involved in the crackdown against protesters and rebels. But he is perhaps even more...
View ArticleIn the name of democracy, landgrab and genocide in Ethiopia
By Nebiyou Alemayehu & Natnael kabtimer (oslo) ) On 6th March 2014 Frontline club Oslo organized an event in collaboration with NEW FRONTIERS entitled “In the Name of Democracy: Land Grabbing and...
View ArticleCôte d’Ivoire: Former militia leader’s transfer to the ICC a first step to...
The decision taken Thursday by Côte d’Ivoire to send former militia leader Charles Blé Goudé, accused of crimes against humanity, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a key step towards justice...
View ArticleLive: Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta 2014 State of the Nation Address
Live: An unsafe Kenya will be high on the to say list for president Uhuru Kenyatta when he makes his state of the nation address in parliament. Live streaming video by Ustream
View ArticleMugabe shuns EU-Africa talks after wife denied visa
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will boycott the mammoth European Union-Africa summit after his wife Grace Mugabe was denied a visa to enter Europe, a foreign ministry official said on Friday. “We...
View ArticleSomalia: UN Encumbrance, Somali Disarray and 2016 UN Governor
Somalia is on the whole debased by the UN and it has become the norm for the UN to dictate for Somali federal government how to do business in Somalia. In sum, it is no longer a secret that the UN is...
View ArticleHelp Africa like Ukraine
By U S TV Reality Court Show Judge Greg Mathis In the Spring and Summer of 1994, almost 1 million African’s belonging to the Tutsi tribe of Rwanda were killed within 120 days. The Rwandan genocide...
View ArticleSaving the ICC: A Proposal for a Witness Protection Program
by Alemayehu G. Mariam Justice delayed, again? In late January of this year, I wrote a commentary entitled, “Kenyatta at the ICC: Is Justice Deferred, Justice Denied?” In that commentary I openly...
View ArticleAfrican Union needs to step up, be counted
There must be a way of stopping African conflict Adama Dieng Images of Charles Taylor being arrested and indicted in 2006 for his crimes in Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war were splashed over the front...
View ArticlePreventing genocide in South Sudan
By Eric Reeves and John Prendergast With Secretary of State John Kerry traveling to Ethiopia today, site of the peace talks for South Sudan, he will be greeted by a bracing reality: no civilians in the...
View ArticleSouth Sudan – Dumbfounded
By Zechariah Manyok Biar South Sudan is really young. It seems its people in all their capacities mess up in the process of trying to do their best in serving their country better. The problem could be...
View ArticleThe International Criminal Court’s Relationship With Africa: An Unfair Bias?
By Pambazuka News By Arlette Afagbegee The International Criminal Court (ICC), which will soon be celebrating its twelfth anniversary, has received extensive media coverage and attention of late due to...
View ArticleEritrea faces UN human rights probe – BBC
The UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) has set up a commission of inquiry into Eritrea, seen as one of the world’s most repressive states. The three-member panel will report back in one year. In a...
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