Dutch prosecutors say they have launched co-ordinated raids in several countries against suspected money-launderers and tax evaders. They said they had been tipped off about millions of dollars of...
Arab leaders gathered for an annual summit in Jordan Wednesday looking to overcome divisions on regional crises including the devastating wars in Syria and Yemen. A show of unity was expected on the...
A court in Ivory Coast has acquitted the country’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, of crimes against humanity. The charges related to the violence that followed the 2010 presidential poll when...
Arab leaders are set to meet in Jordan on Wednesday for their annual summit with no expected breakthrough on resolving conflicts or "terrorism" in the region. Saudi Arabia's King Salman is among 22...
An Ivory Coast court has found former first lady Simone Gbagbo not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity after a trial on her alleged role in postelection abuses that led to the deaths of...
Zambia opened public consultations this week on the government's plan to leave the International Criminal Court, as several other African countries re-assess their membership. South Africa recently...
There are indications that the Interoperability for mobile money contract awarded Sibton Switch Systems by the Bank of Ghana is being tempered with and a total cancellation being considered. And...
President Omar al-Bashir will attend an Arab League summit in Amman this week, Sudan's foreign minister said Sunday, despite a top rights group urging Jordan to deny him entry. Bashir is wanted by...
A top US military commander has said the LRA has been reduced to "irrelevance" after years of joint military operations have killed most of its forces. Its leader, Joseph Kony, is still on the run....
The United Nations Security Council on Friday strengthened its protection of global cultural heritage sites threatened by armed conflicts, saying perpetrators of unlawful destruction could be...
In its first such decision, the International Criminal Court on Friday awarded $250 dollars as "symbolic" damages to each victim of a former Congolese warlord, a sum swiftly dismissed as meaningless...
A day’s forum to deepen understanding of the United Nations Convention on contract for the international carriage of goods by sea, commonly referred to as “Rotterdam Rules” has been held in...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he was open to sharingBeijing in flashpoint South China Sea waters over which Manila has been given exclusive rights by an international tribunal....
Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan has issued a chilling warning that Europeans 'will not walk safely on the streets' as tensions between Ankara and the EU escalated further today. Erdogan has been locked...
Judges at the International Criminal Court may Friday award the tribunal's first monetary sums to victims of war crimes, with lawyers estimating some $16.4 million in damages were caused by a 2003...
Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba and four associates will be sentenced on Wednesday for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial, in the first such case before the International...
Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule, when tens of thousands of people were killed, according to documents...
Turkey's red meat association has ordered Dutch cattle to be sent back to the Netherlands, saying that the diplomatic crisis between the countries has led to a decision to no longer farm the cows....
Millions of Dutch voters are going to the polls today in key elections overshadowed by a blazing diplomatic row with Turkey and all eyes on the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders. Following last year's...
Turkey's war of words with the Netherlands has worsened after the Turkish president accused the Dutch of carrying out a massacre of Muslim men at Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995. Bosnian Serb forces were...
