Hague-based ICC rules it has jurisdiction over former Philippine President Duterte case
The defence argued that the ICC lacks jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed in the Philippines, on the grounds that the country is no longer a State Party to the Rome Statute, the Court’s founding treaty.
Former Kenyan captain Steve Tikolo named as Uganda National Cricket head coach
The cricket body said the recruitment process, which started in January this year, attracted 75 applicants from across the cricket world, including coaches from New Zealand, England, South Africa and India.
Lawyers ask ICC to probe 122 EU officials, including France’s Macron and Germany’s Merkel, for crimes against humanity in Mediterranean
Despite repeated calls from human rights experts for Europe to refrain from supporting Libyan forces in stopping migrants from crossing the Mediterranean, European officials remain determined to continue doing just that.
Rights defenders welcome first conviction by world court on past atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur
Conflict now rages in Sudan between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – born out of the Janjaweed militias – and Sudan’s military. Tensions erupted in 2023 between the two previous allies that were meant to oversee a democratic transition after a 2019 uprising.
ICC sets precedent after it resolves to try fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony in absentia
The LRA began its attacks in Uganda in the 1980s, when Kony sought to overthrow the government. After being pushed out of Uganda, the militia terrorized villages in Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan. It was notorious for using child soldiers, mutilating civilians and enslaving women.
