Last week Mr. Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.), announced that he will request the charges against the fugitive militia leader Joseph Kony to be confirmed in the defendant’s absence. This would be a first in the Court’s history, but Khan says he hopes the confirmation
Over the last two weeks, world leaders have gathered once again to hash out goals, deals and action plans to mitigate the global threat to our climate. As delegates travelled to Sharm-el-Sheikh for COP27, commentators wondered whether 2022 is the year that climate change fell off the agenda. After the
The past two weeks have seen the U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights and the Pope have highlighting the ongoing violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in response to separate events instigated by different groups in the ongoing conflict. These statements have demonstrated perfectly the deep complexity of
France has announced that it will remove all of its remaining soldiers from the Central African Republic by the end of this year, as diplomatic ties between Paris and Bangui hit an all-time low. While there has been no official reason given for the end of the withdrawal, this move is
The international community continues to use development aid as a bargaining chip in a bid to influence politics in Afghanistan and protect the human rights of the Afghan people. This approach is not working. A new approach should focus on the agents of change in the country: young people.
1st October 2022 marked five years since separatists in the North-western and South-western regions of Cameroon declared the Independent Republic of Ambazonia. As the conflict over the territory’s status intensifies, this day is not one of celebration. In late 2016, protests led by lawyers and teachers in the English-speaking regions
On Monday September 26th, the International Criminal Court opened the trial of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a former militia commander from the Central African Republic (CAR). Said is the third of four individuals to be handed over to the ICC from CAR for war crimes and crimes against humanity, all
European authorities’ inaction is starting to look like dirty battle tactics at the world’s deadliest sea border. Between November 10th and 12th, four separate shipwrecks in the crossing between Libya and Italy claimed over 110 lives. In the largest of the shipwrecks, a boat of reportedly 120 people capsized, leaving
This month the Somali government named its new Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, after the previous, Hassan Ali Khaire, was voted out of Parliament. Khaire was dismissed for failing to negotiate a one-person, one-vote system for the upcoming elections. The United Nations has advocated strongly for a transition to one-person,
On October 2nd, the town of Saké, North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, was severely damaged by flooding. Heavy rainfall caused the Mutahyo river to burst its banks at Saké, approximately 25km west of the provincial capital Goma. At least 15 people have died and more are
This week in Burkina Faso, 2.3 million new voters were registered for the upcoming presidential election. However, following a new law that justified the cancellation of voter registration under “force majeure,” the least secure 17.4% of the country was excluded from registration. In the same week that 417,465 Burkinabè were
Under a deal brokered by the U.S., the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the 13th August announced its intentions to normalize relations with Israel. Following this announcement, we are already seeing signs of the plans following through. Commercial flights appear to have resumed between the countries, and the
