Chance Mihonya, a rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment. Chance Mihonya who created a rebel group in the Kahuzi Biega National Park in 2017 was arrested last year and found guilty of …
Read More »HRW accuses Tigrayan, Eritrean forces of raping and killing refugees
An international rights organization has accused the Eritrean soldiers and Tigrayan militias of raping, detaining and killing Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. Human Rights Watch’s report detailed attacks around two camps in Tigray, where local forces have battled the Ethiopian government and their Eritrean allies since November …
Read More »Rights group calls for investigation into war crimes in Tigray
Human Rights Watch has added its voice to calls for an urgent United Nations-backed inquiry into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Ethiopian region of Tigray. The lobby group accuses Ethiopian and Eritrean forces of indiscriminately shelling the city of Aksum in November. Echoing a report last …
Read More »What’s really going on in Ethiopia’s Tigray region?
It’s been 100 days since fighting broke out in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. In that time, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes. Many are going hungry. “I’m sheltered at my friends and I rely on them … I have no work,” one of the …
Read More »ICC postponed the trial of former CAR militia leaders
The trial of two Central African Republic (CAR) rebel leaders, scheduled to open at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, has been postponed to February 16. Alfred Yékatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona face 21 and 32 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity respectively. The alleged crimes include intentionally …
Read More »Uganda: former LRA commander guilty of war crimes
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to deliver its verdict in the trial of Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier turned rebel commander; he is accused on 70 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Mr Ongwen, a feared commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), is the …
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