Vol 50 No 16 | KENYA A 'government of national impunity' 7th August 2009 The fractious coalition government of President Mwai Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga may have finally agreed on something: to let impunity reign. Kenyans speak of the transition from...
Vol 50 No 16 | SOMALIAUNITED STATES Washington backs the TFG 7th August 2009 Even before President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia met United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the first leg of her seven-nation African tour, Washington had...
Vol 50 No 15 | KENYA Kofi Annan puts politicians on the spot over poll violence 24th July 2009 Options narrow after the International Criminal Court receives the list of suspects The Kenyan government has until the end of September to set up an independent special tribunal on the post-election violence of December 2007. On 9 July, former United...
Vol 50 No 15 | KENYA Kenyan politicians face new deadline 24th July 2009 Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary General, made his announcement about handing over the envelope containing the list of the accused to the International Criminal Court just...
Vol 50 No 15 | KENYA The CIPEV's recommendations 24th July 2009 Recommendations from the Waki Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence (CIPEV), Part V, Chapter 13.
Vol 50 No 15 | LIBERIARWANDASIERRA LEONESUDAN International justice and its pitfalls 24th July 2009 The current array of international tribunals has its roots in the 1990s. With the Cold War over, a spate of atrocious wars broke out in areas that no...
Vol 50 No 15 | SUDAN Abyei arbitrage 24th July 2009 The Permanent Court of Arbitration's 22 July ruling, which redrew the boundaries of the disputed Abyei area, affirmed that all the area's major oil fields and the Nile...
Vol 50 No 14 | RWANDA The quest for justice after the genocide continues 10th July 2009 The search for justice lumbers on in a costly UN tribunal and national and community courts, but the convictions are relatively few The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was set up by the United Nations Security Council in November 1994 to try those responsible for genocide or other serious offences...
Vol 50 No 14 | RWANDA The missing suspects 10th July 2009 Thirteen more genocide suspects are sought by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The United States government's offer of a US$5 million bounty for their arrest has...
Vol 50 No 13 | SUDAN Coup anniversary – 20 years of Islamist rule 26th June 2009 As the NCP/NIF celebrates 20 years in power, the 'democratic transformation' stipulated by the CPA looks optimistic A momentous year awaits Sudan. Amid fighting in the South and Darfur, elections are due in February and the Southern referendum on independence is scheduled for 2011. The...