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[MAP] Rabat -- Representatives of parliamentary groups and groupings in the House of advisors said, on Tuesday, that the arguments put forward by Spain to justify the hosting of Polisario leader, the man named Brahim Ghali , "are not convincing", calling on the northern neighbor to "thoroughly review" this position.
The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
[CAF] The CAF Executive Committee met today, Thursday 10 December in Cairo. The committee approved major reforms aimed at better ways of combating corruption and bad governance, protecting the integrity of the game, as well as several measures in response to the health crisis linked to the Coronavirus. At the opening of the meeting, the members of the Committee observed a minute of silence in memory of the members of the confederation, who died in recent weeks, namely: General Séyi Mémène, f
Document - Today, I announce the conclusion of the preliminary examination of the situation in Nigeria.
Announcement - The United States affirms, as stated by previous Administrations, its support for Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the only basis for a just and lasting solution to the dispute over the Western Sahara territory. Therefore, as of today, the United States recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara territory and reaffirms its support for Morocco’s serious, credible, and realistic autonomy proposal as the only basis for a just and lasting solution to the dispute over the Western S
[MAP] Rabat -- Director-General of the Moroccan Agency for Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security (AMSSNuR), Khammar Mrabit stressed the importance Morocco attaches to international and African cooperation.
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today. Every day is worth remembering.
Welcome to our wrap of the latest sports news, results and fixtures from across the globe and at home in South Africa.
It is hard to know what the future holds for Venezuela, its opposition leader Juan Guaidó, or the
present US-led policy that emphasizes sanctions and isolation.
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With millions of Americans facing economic peril as the coronavirus pandemic rages and government assistance dries up, many are increasingly turning to theft for food and essential items.
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed Iran for the presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, publicly identifying two Iranian intelligence officers believed responsible for his abduction. Levinson disappeared in Iran under mysterious circumstances more than a decade ago, and though U.S. diplomats and investigators have long said they thought he was taken by Iranian government agents, Monday's announcement in the final weeks of the Trump administration was the most definitive assignment of blame to date. Besides blaming two high-ranking intelligence officers by name, U.S. officials […]
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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) welcomes a \"landmark\" ruling by Kenya's High Court that ordered the government to pay compensation to four female survivors of a wave of sexual violence that unfurled after violently disputed elections in 2007.
The four will each receive the equivalent of around $36,000, while another four plaintiffs -- two women and two men -- had their cases dismissed.
The government was responsible for a \"failure to conduct independent and effective investigations and prosecutions of SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence)-related crimes during the post-election violence,\" the court said.
The result, it said, was a \"violation of their constitutional rights\".
Rights groups found that more than 1,100 people were killed and at least 900 people suffered sexual assaults, including gang rape and castration.
Years later, the International Criminal Court in The Hague indicted Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto for crimes against humanity, but both cases collapsed when witnesses failed to testify.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a charity that helped bring Thursday's case to court, welcomed the \"landmark\" ruling, saying it was the first time in Kenya that post-election sexual violence has been recognised by the government, and compensation offered.
\"After more than seven years of litigation ad delays, some justice has finally been served,\" said Naitore Nyamu, head of PHR's Kenya office.
\"This is a historic day for survivors of the rampant sexual violence perpetrated in the aftermath of the 2007 election.\"
One of the compensated survivors said, \"We are happy that the court has finally recognised the harm that we suffered as victims. However, we do not understand why the court separated us and did not offer compensation for the other four victims.\"
Violence -- including sexual violence -- continues to be a staple of presidential elections in Kenya, where the next vote is due in August 2022.
DJ Fresh and Euphonik have become embroiled in a Twitter scandal as a woman alleges the two drugged and then raped her and three other women.
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The Central African Republic's top court on Thursday rejected ex-president Francois Bozize's candidacy in forthcoming elections, boosting Faustin-Archange Touadera's bid for a second term at the helm of the deeply troubled nation.
The ruling was handed down by the Constitutional Court, which barred Bozize on the grounds that he was being sought for alleged murder and torture and was under UN sanctions.
It also rejected four other bids for the December 27 vote, leaving a field of 17 candidates now dominated by Touadera.
A former five-star general, Bozize, 74, has played a major part in CAR's decades-long troubles, and some have feared he could try to stage a violent comeback.
He seized power in 2003 before being overthrown a decade later by the Seleka, a rebel coalition drawn largely from the Muslim minority.
The 2013 coup sparked brutal violence between the Seleka and so-called \"anti-Balaka\" self-defence forces, mainly Christian and animist.
France intervened militarily in its former colony to push out the Seleka, winding down the operation after Touadera was elected in 2016 following a transition.
After spending years in exile, Bozize slipped back into the CAR in late 2019 and filed his candidacy in July.
- Court ruling -
But the Constitutional Court on Thursday said it would not accept his bid, \"given that the candidate is the target of an international arrest warrant\" filed by the CAR in 2014 \"for murder, arbitrary arrest, sequestration, arbitrary detention and torture.\"
It also noted UN measures against Bozize, which meant that he failed to meet \"criteria of sound morality in the electoral code.\"
The United Nations placed Bozize on its sanctions list in 2014, freezing any assets he held abroad and banning him from travel, on the grounds that while in exile he had been supporting militia groups guilty of \"war crimes and crimes against humanity.\"
Bozize would not issue an immediate reaction to the court's ruling, said his campaign manager Christian Guenebem, who insisted the arrest warrant and the UN sanctions \"do not constitute convictions and he continues to have presumption of innocence.\"
Aid workers said the former president was near Kaga Bandoro in the centre of the country when the court's decision was announced.
He was on the territory of a militia chief who was one of his supporters, they said.
Bozize retains a large following in the CAR, especially among the Gbaya ethnic group, the country's largest, and has many supporters in the army.
Many people in the country, as well as humanitarian experts and diplomats, have feared that he may try to force his way back into power although others discount this.
\"It would be a pretty bad idea to try something before the elections, as he would get the entire international community on his back,\" said Thierry Vircoulon, central African director at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) think tank.
- Touadera clear favourite -
Touadera, 63, has been widely criticised for failing to root out corruption, but the barring
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria’s northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years,...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule next Friday on whether it has jurisdiction to take up Guyana’s quest for a juridical ruling on the 1899 arbitral award which settled this country’s boundary with Venezuela.
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[East African] Rwanda has recorded a spike in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks that has brought the total number to 6,349 cases. According to the Ministry of Health's daily report, 40-70 cases have been recorded every day for the last two weeks.
