Tweet by Ottilia Anna Maunganidze 1 July 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the International Criminal Court (ICC). When it came into force in 2002, the ICC was heralded as a new dawn for international criminal justice and as a means through which victims of international crimes would not only see justice…
Tweet This week we have been greeted by another headline implicating South Sudanese officials in the plundering of billions from state coffers. This comes as no surprise to some. Post-conflict societies are often marred by a breakdown of law and order, resulting in the proliferation of many and varied forms of criminal activity including corruption….
Tweet In early 2012 a civil war erupted in Mali, resulting in a humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees fleeing the country to its neighbors Niger, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso. In February, the Malian government bombed their own civilians in a refugee camp in the northern Azawad region, killing a four-year-old girl and wounding many…
Tweet by Eddie Ombagi The 2007 ethnic political violence in Kenya shattered the nation’s image as an oasis of calm in a turbulent corner of Africa. More than 1,200 people were killed and up to 600,000 displaced. The violence assumed an unsettling ethnic character that saw neighbor turn against neighbor with machetes and other crude…
Tweet by Maha Al Aswad Although much has been said recently in the mainstream media about the current situation in Egypt, most of these accounts are largely influenced by the type of media submitting these reports: and given the nature of the Egyptian revolution as being citizen-led, it is important to hear these accounts from…
Tweet After some times of uncertainty the CENI (the National Independent Electoral Commission) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was able to schedule the presidential and the congressional elections for November 28. Therefore, and if there are no changes, in about three months Congolese will be electing their “new political leaders.” Frankly, it might…
Tweet In line with arguments posited by other scholars such as Horace Campbell (2011) in his article for Pambazuka News entitled “Opposing Gaddafi’s massacres and foreign intervention in Libya” this think-piece argues that Gaddafi is by no means the anti-imperialist he claims to be. Gaddafi’s support of various the despots such as Charles Taylor, Idi…
Tweet “Just as the forces of peace and social justice forthrightly opposed Western invasion and occupation of Iraq, we were also opposed to the leadership of Saddam Hussein. So now, we are making it clear: we oppose Gaddafi and his semi-feudal leadership just as we oppose the Western bombings” (Horace Campbell, 2011) Not a decade…
Tweet Dear Patrice, In the last letter that you addressed to your wife Pauline from Camp Hardy Prison, you wrote: “To my children whom I leave and whom perhaps I will see no more, I wish that they be told that the future of the Congo is beautiful and that it expects from them, as…
Tweet It has been exactly a week since the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden and his passing incited intense debates on the decorum expected. Specifically, there are people who believe that there should not have been any rejoicing about the killing of Osama because he was also a human being. Some have…
