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News Source: Scoop
| about 1 month ago
New York, Nov 5 2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced today that the trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who has been charged with war crimes, will begin in April
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News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
Since its establishment in 2002 to prosecute suspects of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression, the International Criminal Court has indicted about 14 people. Of these, five are Ugandan, four from the Democratic
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News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 month ago
The trial of former Congolese rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba on charges of murder, rape and pillage in the Central African Republic will start next April, International Criminal Court (ICC) judges said on Thursday. Bemba, the defeated contender in
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News Source: Macleans
| about 1 month ago
The International Criminal Court says the war crimes trial of former Congo Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba will begin in April. Bemba faces five charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, rape and pillage. Continued Below
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News Source: IRIN
| about 1 month ago
UN agencies, the Interior Ministry and local NGOs. “Villagers are still crossing [the Ubangi river] to Republic of Congo...There is either no health centre, or insufficient medical supplies where they are,” she said. Officials in Equateur
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 month ago
Theo (with the black beret), Coco (at the wheel of his bike) and Ricky (on crutches) of Staff Benda Bilili, Ndjili, Kinshasa, Congo (DRC), 14 september 2009. Photograph: Andy Hall It is just after 11pm at the Senat bar in the roughshod district of
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News Source: Scoop
| 3 months ago
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, the former Congolese Vice-President who is accused of having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity – including rape, murder and pillaging – in the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) in 2002 and 2003,
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News Source: United Press International
| 3 months ago
The International Criminal Court at The Hague says a former Democratic Republic of Congo official will remain in custody until his war crimes trial. The criminal court's appeals chamber ruled that former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba