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Eastern Africa
Kenya’s RSF ties undermine Sudan peace efforts
The Kenyan government's disgraceful decision to host the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allied militias—infamous for their brutal reign of terror in Sudan—makes it complicit in mass atrocities against the Sudanese people. RSF gathered in Nairobi on February 18,...
Monitor December
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
SA drags its feet transferring genocide suspect — the case of Fulgence Kayishema
Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema before the Cape Town Magistrates' Court on 9 June 2023. (Photo credit: Jaco Marais /Gallo Images / Die Burger) Daily Maverick By Atilla Kisla and Owiso Owiso The case of Fulgence Kayishema, who is wanted by the International...
Statement of Young Sudanese Women on the need for Accountability in Sudan at the Twenty-third session of the Assembly of States Parties
On the occasion of the annual meeting of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC in The Hague, young Sudanese women working to document violations in pursuit of justice and to ensure accountability call on those states and the court to do more to ensure...
KENYA’S FIRST DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL CRIMES TRIAL FAILS TO KICK OFF…AGAIN!
By Dr Owiso Owiso As reported in an earlier post, on 3 October 2024 the High Court postponed plea-taking in Kenya’s first domestic international crimes trial (the Baby Pendo case) to 5 November 2024. However, for the second time, plea-taking failed to proceed on 5...
Monitor October 2024
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
THE FATE OF KENYA’S FIRST DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL CRIMES TRIAL HANGS IN THE BALANCE
By Dr Owiso Owiso Kenya is currently in the process of hearing the first case under its 2008 International Crimes Act, colloquially known as the Baby Pendo case. The case is potentially a landmark effort to ensure accountability for international crimes at the...
Special Convening on Sudan at the 81st Ordinary Session of the African Commission of the Human & People’s Rights
Join Africans for the Horn of Africa of Africa (Af4HA) Initiative, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), Open Society Foundations (OSF) and The African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) for a special convening at the...
Monitor July 2024
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...