Syria Has Become ‘torture Chamber’
The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that a "tidal wave of bloodshed" over more than six years of war in Syria had effectively turned the country into a "torture chamber". "As the conflict enters its...
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Iraq Says No Sign of IS Chemical Weapons Use In Mosul
Iraq's UN envoy said Friday there was no evidence that the Islamic State group had used chemical weapons in the battle for Mosul. Ambassador Mohamed Alhakim said he conveyed the information to the...
Netherlands Urges Support For Syria War Crimes Database
Dutch officials on Thursday urged nations to boost efforts to create a database of alleged war crimes in Syria, using evidence smuggled abroad by refugees and investigators. "We already have millions...
S.Africa Revokes Decision To Leave ICC
South Africa has formally revoked its controversial decision to leave the International Criminal Court following last month's High Court ruling that such a move would be unconstitutional. Notice of...
‘Shameful’ If Darfur Chemical Attacks Left Unprobed
Amnesty International on Tuesday renewed its call for a UN investigation into suspected chemical weapons attacks by Sudanese government forces in Darfur, saying it would be "shameful" if they were...
Britain Urges Malaysia To Share Evidence On Kim VX Attack
Britain on Monday urged Malaysia to share evidence from the lethal VX nerve gas attack on Kim Jong-Un's half-brother with the United Nations, which could take action against North Korea. British...
Murder Trial Over ‘Novotel Captives’ Opens In I. Coast
The trial opened Tuesday in Ivory Coast of 10 men, mainly soldiers, accused of kidnapping and killing four men from the Novotel hotel in Abidjan in April 2011. "All the defendants are present," the...
Netherlands – Ghana Business Fair Slated For May 2017
Afro Euro Foundation is organizing Netherlands-Ghana Business Fair 2017 under the theme “Growing Together….The Way to Go”. It is therefore an honor for us to notify the CEO of our proposed fair...
WWII Shipwrecks Off Malaysia Broken For Scrap
Three World War II shipwrecks off the coast of Malaysia -- the final resting place of dozens of seamen -- have almost disappeared, local divers say, with the finger pointing at possible scrap metal...
Good Men and Women
Time does fly. 35 years already… Early in 1982, I was called up to serve. The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) had been delivered on the last day of the previous year and was now being...
President To Revoke Some Appointments
Nobody doubts how unblemished your character is. Also, nobody doubts your potential to deliver as you promised us. Yet, most of us sense that some of your appointees test positive to blemishing your...
President To Revoke Some Appointments
Nobody doubts how unblemished your character is. Also, nobody doubts your potential to deliver as you promised us. Yet, most of us sense that some of your appointees test positive to blemishing your...
AG-Designate To Maintain Mahama’s Team For Ghana-Cote D’Ivoire Maritime Dispute
Attorney General-designate Gloria Afua Akuffo says she will maintain the team of experts set up by the previous government to resolve the maritime boarder dispute between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire....
Icom Issues Red List Of West African Cultural Objects At Risk
‘It is indeed unfortunate that so much Nok material has been looted over time to supply the international art market. Properly excavated, such pieces might have shed valuable light on the Nok...
Kerry Says He’s Confident Trump Administration Will Stick To Peaceful Policies In Asia
Outgoing U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he was confident the next administration would stick to the same peaceful principles on Asian security as the current one, despite hawkish...
High Time All African States Have Left the Eurocentric ICC
Last October Burundi, South Africa and the Gambia declared they were withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing reasons that generally have to do with the widely held perception...
Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President’s Trial Begins In France
The trial of the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president commences on Monday in Paris. Teodorin Obiang Nguema is on trial for plundering state coffers for personal gain. Nguema has however denied the...
Twenty-Two Years In ‘PAWA’
Now it’s my turn to make the most difficult phone call. The call many world leaders dread. I’m calling Gambia President Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh. I don’t know where he got Jemus...
Bensouda Tells Off Powerful UN Council Over Inaction On Darfur Atrocitie
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda on Tuesday scolded the United Nations for failing to take action in the case of Sudan’s president, whom the ICC is seeking to...
LRA Commander Pleads Not Guilty At ICC
The first former child soldier to appear at the International Criminal Court has pleaded not guilty and told judges he was a victim too. Lords Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen said the...