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16 Oct 2006, 12:20 pm
[JURIST] A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST backgrounder] has recommended that three ex-employees of Anvil Mining [corporate website], an Australian company, be tried for complicity in war crimes committed by Congolese government soldiers in 2004. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 11:50 am
[JURIST] Appellate judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF; press release] Friday that the trial chamber must review the continued detention of former Democratic Republic of Congo [BBC backgrounder] vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba [ICC materials; JURIST news archives]. [read post]
21 Aug 2006, 12:30 pm
[JURIST] The Congolese Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) [official website, in French], charged with overseeing the July presidential election [AP report; tallied results] in the Democratic Republic of Congo, released the provisional results of the election on Monday, and announced that a run-off between President Joseph Kabila [BBC profile], who won 45 percent of the vote, and Vice [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 12:39 pm
[JURIST] The chief prosecutor of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] issued an arrest warrant Friday for Jean-Pierre Bemba [campaign website, in French; BBC profile], a former warlord turned senator, whose private militia clashed with government security forces on Thursday. [read post]
23 Feb 2005, 9:18 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court [official website] announced Tuesday that it will hold a hearing to discuss what action the Prosecutor's Office will be taking in light of its investigation of the abuses committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [read post]
7 Nov 2003, 9:18 am
In African legal news this Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague has announced that the hearing of a case brought by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) against Uganda for alleged armed [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 12:07 pm
[JURIST] Defense lawyers for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba [case materials; JURIST news archive] argued before the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Monday that Bemba lacks the financial resources to ensure a fair trial over war crimes he allegedly committed in 2002 and 2003. [read post]
29 Nov 2008, 10:01 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Friday urged [statement text] accountability for abuses as a prerequisite to quelling six years of fighting and restoring peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive; ICC materials]. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 8:09 pm
. - Institute of Security and Global Affairs) has published Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Oxford Univ. [read post]
31 Jan 2022, 5:55 am
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Saturday sentenced 51 individuals to death in relation to the 2017 murder of two UN experts. [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 10:50 am
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] issued a statement [text] Monday calling for an "immediate halt" to "widespread human rights violations" allegedly committed by government officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [official website]. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 4:50 am
The position will provide informal conflict resolution services to UN staff in MONUSCO (the UN's Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), as well as other peacekeeping missions in the region. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 12:08 pm
Here's the abstract:This paper deals with the establishment of the so-called “Intervention Brigade” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Security Council Resolution 2098. [read post]
9 May 2020, 3:44 pm
De Vos (Open Society Justice Initiative) has published Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance: The International Criminal Court in Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Cambridge Univ. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 8:27 am
On Aug. 25, a Filair LET L-410 aircraft flying from Kinshasa Ndolo to Bandundu (Democratic Republic of Congo) with 18 passengers and three crewmembers crashed approximately 2 km from the Bandundu Airport. [read post]
30 Aug 2009, 4:17 am
Ex-soldiers arefrequently taken on by private security companies who have stepped upinterest in the region due to oil discoveries under Lake Albert, whichlies on the border between Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.Mulundu requested the death penalty for each of the 5 charges against the2 defendants.The verdict is expected to be handed down by the military court next week.The men were travelling in Congo's northeastern Orientale province, whichis still… [read post]
11 May 2015, 12:17 pm
Mathieu Ngudjolo, the first defendant to be acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was deported to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 11, 2015, his lawyers said. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 4:49 am
guardian.co.uk Thomas Lubanga was found guilty in March of abducting boys and girls under the age of 15 and forcing them to fight in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern Ituri region in 2002-2003. [read post]
24 Nov 2013, 11:35 am
On November 20, Judge Cuno Jakob Tarfusser [official profile] issued an arrest warrant for Bemba's lead counsel Aime Kilolo Musamba; Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, a member of Bemba's defense team and case manager; Fidele Babala Wandu, a member of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC... [read post]
9 May 2018, 10:02 am
Kinshasa (AFP) - Seventeen people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have died from Ebola, the health ministry said on Tuesday, describing the fresh outbreak as a "public health emergency with international impact. [read post]
