A Historic Acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé (Photo credit: Coalition for the ICC). ICC Trial Chamber I has this morning acquitted Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Cote d’Ivôire, and his co-accused, Charles Blé Goudé, former Youth Minister, from all charges of crimes against humanity committed in Cote d’Ivôire in…
For AFLA’s Executive Director, Evelyn A. Ankumah’s views, find here her address at an ASP event, commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the ICC, that was held in Tokyo, to coincide with the 57th Annual Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO), on 11th October 2018.…
A powerful campaign dubbed Jammeh2JusticeGhana has been launched in Accra, the Ghana capital, calling for prosecution of former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, for the 2005 massacres of 44 innocent Ghanaian migrants in the Gambia, who were on their way to seek greener pastures in Europe and were allegedly mistaken for coup plotters by Jammeh’s intelligence.…
D. Davies – The Gambia, May 9 2018. Banjul (The Gambia) Regional Courts in Africa should be allowed to prosecute international crimes as a way of strengthening complementarity on the Continent, Chief Justice Hassan Jallow of The Gambia suggested. “I remain convinced that complementarity can and should be taken a notch higher by vesting African…
Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) in cooperation with the Attorney General’s Chambers and Ministry of Justice of the Gambia, convened a West Africa Stakeholders’ Meeting on Emerging Trends on Complementarity, as well as a 20th Anniversary Commemoration of the Rome Statute of the ICC. The meetings were held in Banjul, the Gambia from 25-26 April 2018. Participants…
D. Davies – London, Jan 30 2018. The long-awaited activation of the Crime of Aggression under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken place and will come into force on July 17, 2018. This would coincide with the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Rome Statute of the Global War Crimes Court.…
On December 15, 2017, Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court has issued a decision on victims’ reparations in the case ‘The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo’, setting Lubanga’s liability for collective reparations at USD 10,000,000. In a Press Release the Court underlines that “the Chamber examined a sample of 475 applications representative of…
Six new judges will be elected to the International Criminal Court at the ongoing session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the ICC at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. So far the Assembly has elected two new judges, namely Akane Tomoko from Japan and Ibañez Carranza Luz del Carmen from Peru, both…
7 December 2017 – 1.15pm United Nations Headquarters Room 8 New York Send an email to communications@africalegalaid.com to register for the Side Event. …
Pre-Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court issued a public decision authorizing the ICC Prosecutor to open an investigation regarding crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court, allegedly committed in Burundi, or by nationals of Burundi outside Burundi from 26 April 2015 to 26 October 2017. In the period under consideration, alleged human rights violations were…
Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) is pleased to publish the Narrative Report of the Seminar ‘Carrying Forward the Legacy of the Extraordinary African Chambers in the Habré Trial: An African Solution to an African Problem’. The Seminar was held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a Side Event to the 29th Ordinary Session…
Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) Youth Essay Competition The Youth Essay Competition is directed at reaching a large audience of African youth, providing them with a platform to discuss contemporary issues of international criminal justice. Criteria for participation Participants must be African and African based. Participants must be between 21 and 27 years of age. Participants…
“The AFLA Quarterly is now considered by many academics and human rights advocates in Africa and abroad to be an important source of information for human rights and legal developments relating to Africa. It is shaping the way academics and advocates think about complex human rights questions.” (Report of External Facilitator, Prof. Makau Mutua in…
On 15 June 2017, the ICC Appeals Chamber delivered its judgment in the case of the Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda. Mr. Ntaganda, former alleged Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Patriotic Force for the Liberation of Congo, is accused of 13 counts of war crimes and 5 counts of crimes against humanity allegedly…
On 21st July 2017, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced the scheduling of a public hearing in the case of The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi. The hearing will be held on 17 August 2017, at 10.00am (The Hague local time). The Court will deliver its reparations order in the present case. The…
