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Month: June 2021

2 June 2021 by AFP
Ivory Coast in talks over Gbagbo return Ivory Coast's government was to meet with the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday for talks on what his supporters have announced as his impending return. In an apparent sign of discord, Communications Minister A [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Chad and CAR agree to joint investigation of border attack An attack that killed six Chadian soldiers at a border post with the Central African Republic will be jointly investigated by the two countries, after a high-level meeting Tuesday appeared to ease tensions. Chad has blamed the CAR [...]
Abd-al-Rahman at the ICC
1 June 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Who is Abd-al-Rahman? The ICC Prosecutor calls him « the colonel of colonels » of the Janjaweed militia that committed genocidal killings in the Sudan region of Darfur in 2003-2004. The defense claims he is actually not the man the International Crimin [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Trudeau lays flowers at memorial for indigenous students Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of parliament for 215 indigenous students whose remains were discovered last week at a former boarding school. The grim find came last [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Canada faces reckoning after remains of indigenous students found The discovery of the remains of 215 children at one of several boarding schools set up a century ago to forcibly assimilate Canada's indigenous peoples has once again compelled the nation to confront its painful past. The grim fin [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
C.Africa ministers visit Chad after border killings Three Central African Republic ministers arrived in Chad Tuesday aiming to douse tensions after the Chadian government accused its southern neighbour of killing six of its soldiers at a border post. Chad says five of the soldiers [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Trudeau lays flowers at makeshift memorial for indigenous students Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of parliament for 215 indigenous students whose remains were discovered last week at a former boarding school. Trudeau observed severa [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Spain court rejects custody for Polisario leader A Spanish judge on Tuesday declined to order that the leader of Western Sahara's movement, who is under investigation in Spain for torture and genocide, be taken into custody. Brahim Ghali, who heads the Algeria-backed Polisario F [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Gbagbo supporters push I.Coast 'reconciliation' as his return looms Supporters of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo are seeking to allay misgivings over his expected return, insisting his homecoming a decade after civil war will heal divisions, not deepen them. On Monday, his Ivorian Popular [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Polisario leader denies torture claims at Spain hearing The leader of Western Sahara's independence movement, whose presence in Spain has angered Morocco, on Tuesday denied allegations of torture and genocide while being questioned by a Spanish judge. Brahim Ghali, who heads the Algeri [...]
Colonial crimes: a chess game to negotiate reparations, restitution, truth and the duty to remember
1 June 2021 by Justice Info
Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes The colonial past has come back into the spotlight. Descendants of the colonized are demanding reparations. Former colonial powers, as if suddenly waking up, under pressure from changing power relations, are finally showing some w [...]
Scene of reconciliation at the TRRC in Gambia
1 June 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When it is time for reconciliation After more than two years of often spectacular public hearings, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission closed its hearings on May 28. It will present its report and recommendations in July. But a lesser known as [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Polisario leader denies torture claims at Spain hearing The leader of Western Sahara's independence movement, whose presence in Spain has angered Morocco, on Tuesday denied allegations of torture and genocide while being questioned by a Spanish judge. Brahim Ghali, who heads the Algeri [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Rwanda police arrest YouTuber for alleged genocide denial Rwandan authorities on Monday said they had arrested a highly critical YouTuber on charges of denying the 1994 genocide, which could land him in jail for over a decade if he is found guilty. Aimable Karasira, 40, a former universi [...]
1 June 2021 by AFP
Spanish judge begins questioning Polisario leader The leader of Western Sahara's independence movement, whose presence in Spain has angered Morocco, was being questioned by a Spanish judge Tuesday about allegations of torture and genocide. The closed-door hearing at Spain's Natio [...]