Category: Politics

As Burundi gears towards the presidential polls in 2020, the commissioner in charge of electoral operations in the East African country had told a group of journalists and civil society groups in Bujurumba on Wednesday that the country would “block the way for those media who do not want to follow the path taken by the government.” Jean Anastase Hicuburund a senior official from the Burundi National Independent Electoral Commission made the threat and accused independent media and local…

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Today, 6 May 2019, in the appeal brought by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (“Jordan”), the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) decided unanimously to confirm the decision of ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II (“Pre-Trial Chamber”), to the extent that it found that Jordan, a State Party to the ICC Rome Statute since 2002, had failed to comply with its obligations by not arresting Mr Omar Al-Bashir (at all material times the President of the Republic…

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On 6 May 2019 at 9:30 a.m. (The Hague local time), the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) will deliver its judgment on the appeal by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan against Pre-Trial Chamber II’s decision of 11 December 2017 in the Al Bashir case. The appeal arose from the decision of ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II, which found that Jordan, a State Party to the ICC Rome Statute since 2002, failed to comply with its obligations…

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