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The International Criminal Court upheld the convictions and a prison sentence of a former Congolese warlord Tuesday, dismissing his lawyers’ arguments that legal errors tainted his original trial. Bosco Ntaganda was sentenced to 30 years in prison aft...
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March 30, 2021 Web Desk
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PARIS - Kenya has refused to attend a weeklong hearing by the United Nations' highest court over a long-running maritime dispute with Somalia.In a letter last week to The Hague-based International Court of Justice, or ICJ, the Kenyan government cited a...
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March 15, 2021 Web Desk
Judicial, Legal-Judicial
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Rwandan Justice Minister Johnston Busingye said in an interview broadcast Friday that Kigali had paid for the plane that brought the hero of the hit movie Hotel Rwanda to his home country to be arrested and tried.A critic of Rwandan President Paul Kaga...
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February 26, 2021 Web Desk
Judicial, Legal-Judicial
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The story of how Paul Rusesabagina protected Hutu and mostly Tutsi refugees during the Rwandan genocide was the subject of a 2004 Oscar-nominated film, Hotel Rwanda. But Rusesabagina was arrested last month in Rwanda, accused of funding rebel groups. Observers tell VOA they fear his...
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October 1, 2020 User1
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JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN – Nearly 130 people have been killed and thousands more displaced in violence over the past week in South Sudan’s Warrap state, according to a South Sudanese army spokesman. During a government campaign Saturday to disarm civilians in Tonj East County, an...
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August 13, 2020 User1
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