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Month: September 2025

9 September 2025 by AFP
DR Congo lobbies UN to recognise eastern 'genocide' The Democratic Republic of Congo launched a campaign at the United Nations on Tuesday demanding international recognition of a "genocide" against people in the Congolese east. For more than three decades the eastern DRC, a region [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
Majority of Kenyans report police abuse: survey More than 40 percent of Kenyans have experienced abuses of power at the hands of the country's under-fire police, while 69 percent reported witnessing misconduct, an international monitor said on Tuesday. The survey by the Washing [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
ICC hears harrowing details as Kony war crimes hearing opens Villages torched, young girls forced into sexual slavery, babies beaten and thrown into fires: the International Criminal Court Tuesday heard harrowing stories of atrocities allegedly committed by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance A [...]
Swiss international justice (under the principle of universal jurisdiction) is bogged down by delays and suspicions of political interference. Photo: Stefan Blattler, Attorney General, deep in thought, next to a Switzerland flag.
9 September 2025 by Julia Crawford
Slowness, alleged political interference mark Swiss record In Switzerland, justice on universal jurisdiction cases continues to go at a snail’s pace, despite the current attorney general’s promises to make them a priority.
9 September 2025 by AFP
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally outside London arms show Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered Tuesday outside a major arms fair in London as it opened without the presence of Israeli government officials because of tension between Britain and Israel over the Gaza conflict. Police watched [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
Paramilitary launches drone strikes on Sudan capital A wave of paramilitary drone strikes hit key infrastructure and military targets in and around Sudan's army-held capital Tuesday, bringing to an abrupt end a period of relative calm in the area. The strikes hit a power station, a [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
Spain bars two far-right Israeli ministers Spain and Israel's relations plunged to new depths on Tuesday as Madrid barred two far-right Israeli government ministers, a day after announcing measures aimed at stopping what it called "the genocide in Gaza". Israel's National [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
Russia kills 21 in east Ukraine during pension distribution, Zelensky says A Russian strike on Tuesday killed 21 people during the distribution of pension payments in a frontline town of eastern Ukraine threatened by Moscow's push to capture the entire industrial region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
Kony crimes still felt in Uganda, 20 years on, ICC hears The consequences of the brutal crimes allegedly committed by Uganda rebel chief Joseph Kony are still reverberating in the country more than 20 years later, an International Criminal Court prosecutor said Tuesday. Kony faces 39 co [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
Where is Uganda's wanted warlord Joseph Kony? Indicted Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who has been on the run for decades, is down to just 20 or so fighters and is likely in Sudan's Darfur region, an expert on his insurgency told AFP. Kony once held sway over the borderlands th [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
ICC opens war crimes hearing on Ugandan warlord Kony The International Criminal Court opened war crimes hearings Tuesday against Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan rebel chief whose Lord's Resistance Army was responsible for murdering and kidnapping tens of thousands. Kony was the first [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
London arms show opens under Israel cloud A major arms fair opens Tuesday in London without the presence of Israeli government officials due to worsening diplomatic relations between Britain and Israel over the Gaza conflict. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's administratio [...]
9 September 2025 by AFP
ICC hears charges against Ugandan warlord Kony The International Criminal Court opens war crimes hearings Tuesday against Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan rebel chief whose Lord's Resistance Army was responsible for murdering and kidnapping tens of thousands. Kony was the first s [...]
8 September 2025 by AFP
I.Coast bars two top opposition leaders from presidential vote Ivory Coast on Monday barred two top opposition leaders, ex-president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam, from next month's presidential election in which President Alassane Ouattara is seeking a controversi [...]
8 September 2025 by AFP
Olivia Colman and Mark Ruffalo in Israel film boycott call More than 1,500 film industry figures including actors Olivia Colman and Mark Ruffalo vowed to boycott Israeli cinema bodies they said were "implicated in genocide" in Gaza, in an open letter published Monday. "We pledge not to sc [...]
8 September 2025 by AFP
Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo among 1,500 film workers to boycott Israeli cinemas Over 1,500 actors and film industry workers including Olivia Colman and Mark Ruffalo vowed not to work with Israeli cinema bodies they said were "implicated in genocide" in Gaza, in an open letter published Monday. "We pledge not [...]
8 September 2025 by AFP
UN rights chief denounces Israeli 'genocidal rhetoric' on Gaza The UN rights chief accused Israeli officials on Monday of using overt "genocidal rhetoric" about Gaza and called for decisive international action to "end the carnage". In a speech to the UN Human Rights Council that was criticis [...]
8 September 2025 by AFP
Spain, Israel spar after Madrid moves 'to stop Gaza genocide' Spain on Monday recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv after Israel's top diplomat accused premier Pedro Sanchez of antisemitism and barred two government ministers from entry. The spat came after Sanchez unveiled measures he said [...]
8 September 2025 by AFP
Sri Lanka rejects call for foreign war crimes probe Sri Lanka's new government on Monday rejected a call by the United Nations for an international investigation into alleged war crimes committed during its ethnic conflict which claimed over 100,000 lives. Foreign Minister Vijitha [...]