The Hague Archives

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting of the Council of Legislators at the Federal Assembly in Saint Petersburg, Russia April 27, 2022.

International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor says the Department is awaiting refreshed legal opinion on extending an invitation to Russian President ...

Anna Sosonska, deputy head of Ukraine's war crimes unit for sexual violence, and psychologist Vasyl Humeniuk speak with a survivor, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kherson, Ukraine December 9, 2022.

International legal experts assist Ukraine in sexual violence investigation

by Bongisipho Magcaba

12 December 2022, 9:07 AM

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An international team of legal advisers has been working with local prosecutors in Ukraine's recaptured city of Kherson in recent ...

Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who resigned and was taken into custody of a war crimes tribunal, appears for the first time before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, Netherlands.

Kosovo ex-president Thaci pleads not guilty to war crimes charges

by Raymond Akamby

9 November 2020, 5:50 PM

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Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci on Monday pleaded not guilty to all war crimes charges brought against him in his ...

Eric Emeraux, head of the Gendarmerie's Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity, Genocides and War Crimes (OCLCH), diplays documents with a wanted poster depicting a photograph of Felicien Kabuga during an interview with Reuters at his office, about the arrest of Rwandan genocide fugitive suspect Felicien Kabuga, in Paris, France, May 19, 2020.

Rwanda genocide survivors want speedy trial for Kabuga, but court faces delays

by SABC Digital News

1 October 2020, 5:15 PM

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A special U.N. tribunal in Tanzania should quickly try elderly tycoon Felicien Kabuga on charges of financing the 1994 Rwandan ...

Germain Katanga, a Congolese national, sits in the courtroom of the ICC during the closing statements in the trial against Katanga and Ngudjolo Chui in The Hague May 15, 2012.

Congo dispatches former warlords to try to resolve ethnic conflict

by SABC Digital News

7 July 2020, 7:44 PM

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Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has dispatched former warlords, including two who were tried for war crimes in The Hague, ...

Fatou Bensouda, the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, attends the trial of Malian Islamist militant Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud at the ICC in The Hague, the Netherlands July 8, 2019.

Sudan war crimes charges are untrue, suspect says

by SABC Digital News

15 June 2020, 6:00 PM

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A Sudanese war crimes suspect said on Monday that charges mentioned on his arrest warrant are untrue, during an initial ...

Sudan's former president Omar al-Bashir delivers a speech inside Parliament in Khartoum.

ICC trial in The Hague one option for Bashir: Minister

by Tshepiso Moche

18 February 2020, 12:14 PM

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Sudan could send former leader Omar al-Bashir and other suspects to The Hague for trial before the International Criminal Court, ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, 75, came to power after a 2015 election win that followed decades of house arrest in a struggle for democracy with Myanmar’s junta that turned her into an international icon

Suu Kyi rejects charge of Rohingya genocide as ‘misleading’

by Bomkazi Malobola

11 December 2019, 2:03 PM

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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday rejected accusations of genocide committed against her country’s Muslim Rohingya minority as ...

Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda stands in the courtroom of the ICC

Congolese ‘Terminator’ faces war crimes judgment

by Bongisipho Magcaba

8 July 2019, 5:26 AM

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Bosco Ntaganda, dubbed the "Terminator” is accused of overseeing the slaughter of civilians by his soldiers in the DRC's volatile, ...

(FILES) The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda (L) holds a press conference.

ICC prosecutor warns Libya war crimes will be prosecuted

by Raymond Akamby

16 April 2019, 2:57 PM

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The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Tuesday warned she "would not hesitate" to broaden her investigation into Libya war crimes ...

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo.

ICC orders conditional release of former I.Coast leader Gbagbo

by Raymond Akamby

1 February 2019, 6:19 PM

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The International Criminal Court on Friday ordered the conditional release of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo after he was ...

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo gestures as he enters the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

ICC credibility questioned after Gbagbo’s acquittal

by Raymond Akamby

15 January 2019, 8:18 PM

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Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has been acquitted of all charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.

Charles Ble Goude (L) and Laurent Gbagbo (R).

War crimes court acquits Ivory Coast ex-strongman Gbagbo

by Raymond Akamby

15 January 2019, 6:09 PM

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The International Criminal Court acquitted former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday over a wave of post-electoral violence, in ...

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo enters the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Ivory Coast ex-strongman Gbagbo in shock ICC acquittal

by Raymond Akamby

15 January 2019, 2:47 PM

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The International Criminal Court acquitted former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday over a wave of post-electoral violence, in ...

Minister Motsoaledi recognised for his fight against TB

by Busisiwe Radebe

23 October 2018, 4:37 PM

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The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, will on Tuesday evening receive two prestigious Kochon Prizes, the Health Department has ...

Two thousand delegates from all over the world have converged in the Netherlands for this year's "One Young World" summit.

One Young World Summit opens in The Hague

by Raymond Akamby

18 October 2018, 10:12 AM

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Sexual and gender-based violence comes under the spotlight at the One Young World Summit currently under way at The Hague, ...

A man walks past an election campaign poster of Hamed Bakayoko, Defence Minister and candidate running for the municipal election, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Political rift in Ivory Coast raises concerns for 2020

by Bongisipho Magcaba

12 October 2018, 10:53 AM

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They also say a falling out between Alassane Ouattara and Henri Konan Bedie, who served as president from 1993 until ...

(FILES) Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo looking on before the start of his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Ivory Coast ex-president’s ICC freedom bid pushed back

by Raymond Akamby

3 October 2018, 8:48 PM

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The International Criminal Court on Wednesday pushed back to November a hearing on Ivory Coast former president Laurent Gbagbo's bid ...

Dominic Ongwen (C), a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects,

Ugandan warlord’s defence to open at ICC

by Raymond Akamby

15 September 2018, 7:37 AM

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Notorious Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen's lawyers open their defence Tuesday at the International Criminal Court, where their client ...