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Daily Monitor
Monday May 10 2021
In this file photo taken on December 06, 2016 shows Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in Uganda s Lord s Resistance Army (LRA), looks on at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. PHOTO/AFP
Summary
International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the notorious Lord s Resistance Army (LRA), to 25 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Dominiuc Ongwen, 45, was found guilty in February of 61 charges including murders, rapes and sexual enslavement during a reign of terror in the early 2000s by the LRA, led by the fugitive Joseph Kony.
February 2021
Criminal groups abducted hundreds in north west, while ethnic and regional tensions ran high in south amid farmer-herder conflict; meanwhile, tensions rose in south east between govt and Biafra secessionists. Criminal groups in Feb reportedly killed at least 112 and kidnapped over 450 people, mostly in Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Zamfara states (north west), but also in Niger state (Middle Belt). Notably, armed group 17 Feb abducted 42 students and school personnel in Niger state, released them 27 Feb; 26 Feb kidnapped 279 girls in Zamfara state. Meanwhile, Auwalun Daudawa, who masterminded Dec 2020 abduction of 344 students in Katsina state, 8 Feb laid down arms along with five of his troops. Amid rise in herder-farmer and intercommunal violence in south since Jan, clashes between ethnic Hausa and Fulani on one hand, and ethnic Yoruba on the other, early Feb killed two dozen people in Oyo state capital Ibadan (south west). Nobel laureate in literature Wole Soyinka 6 F
THE STANDARD By
Paul Ogemba |
February 5th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Lawyer Paul Gicheru during an interview with The Standard at his office in Nairobi on February 04, 2021. The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday conditionally released Gicheru who is among three Kenyans facing charges of influencing witnesses in a post-election violence case that claimed over 1,000 lives in 2007-08. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]
After, three months of brushing shoulders with the world’s most dangerous convicts and indictees, lawyer Paul Gicheru quietly got back on Tuesday.
In his own words, it was not all that bad at The Hague-based International Criminal Court detention centre.