Category: Legal

Important Step Toward Justice in DR Congo?

The Congolese human rights minister launched national consultations on a new transitional justice initiative that, if implemented, would help the Democratic Republic of Congo emerge from conflict, address grave human rights violations, and institute ne…

ICJ Orders Uganda to Pay $325 Million to DR Congo

The International Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered Uganda to pay $325 million to the Democratic Republic of Congo, as reparations for Uganda’s invasion of the DRC in the late 1990s.Seven years ago, the court ruled Uganda must compensate the DRC fo…

UN Grants $150 Million in Aid for 13 Underfunded Crises

GENEVA — The United Nations is allocating $150 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund to support seriously underfunded humanitarian operations in 13 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.Topping the list of underfunded c…

UN Agency Calls for International Action to End Sahel Conflict

GENEVA — UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency is calling for international action to end the armed conflict in Africa’s Central Sahel region, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than 2.5 million over the last decade.Data…

Ethiopia on Edge of Humanitarian Disaster, UN Agency Says

GENEVA — The World Food Program warns Ethiopia is on the edge of a humanitarian disaster as escalating fighting in the north is preventing the delivery of needed food from reaching millions of people in battle-scarred Tigray province.The last time a fo…

NY Times Freelancer on Trial in Zimbabwe in Immigration Case

A freelance journalist for The New York Times went on trial Wednesday in Zimbabwe, accused of helping two of the newspaper’s reporters enter the country illegally. Critics say the charges are another example of the government’s attempts to control the …