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Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru died on Monday at his home in Karen, Nairobi. He was aged 50. Gicheru became a household name in 2020 after charges of alleged bribery of witnesses testifying at the International Criminal Court (ICC) were preferred against him at the Hague-based court. He was accused of bribing and intimidating witnesses in the failed […]
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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
President Alassane Ouattara faces three challengers as he seeks a third term in Saturday’s vote.
Human rights advocates criticised the move as \"another reckless and brazen attack against international justice\" that \"is designed to do what this administration does best—bully and intimidate.\"
THE Zimbabwe cricket team will be going for broke when they take on Pakistan in three one-day internationals (ODIs) and three T20 series in Rawalpindi and Lahore beginning next week, in its quest to gain automatic qualification to the next ICC World Cup set for India in 2023. BY MUNYARADZI MADZOKERE It is Zimbabwe’s first visit to Pakistan since 2015 and for the two nations, it is ICC Cricket World Cup Super League tournament campaign. An ODI competition involving 13 countries, the Super League tournament will see top seven ranked countries book a ticket to the World Cup and avoid the qualifiers. Zimbabwe missed out on the last World Cup after a painful defeat to United Arab Emirates in a qualifier tournament at Harare Sports Club. “For us as Zimbabwe cricket we are here to try and start winning games. It’s important to get the points that we need to qualify automatically for the next World Cup,” former skipper Elton Chigumbura (pictured) said during a virtual Press conference from Pakistan. “It is very important to start picking points now. The good thing is as players we are aware and we have experienced the impact of not qualifying for the World Cup. “Everyone is now aware of how we should start the series. Every game we play is important for the team so that we qualify. We are taking each game as it comes and hopefully we are going to have a great start. “We came here to win. Everyone has the will to go out there and express themselves. The wickets here are always flat, they favour bowlers but we are positive. “Every game we are going to play is important and every player is aware you are going to see us try to win every game. Everyone is looking forward to it after some seven months without playing.” The ODI series is set to begin on October 30, with the other two matches scheduled for November 1 and 3, respectively, while the T20 series begins four days later. While this is the Zimbabwe team’s first international fixture since they toured Bangladesh in February and March this year, Chigumbura last featured in ODIs against the same opponents in October 2018. He will be looking to replicate the kind of form that he exhibited with the bat when Zimbabwe last toured Pakistan in 2015 when he struck a century and half ton in the three appearances. “It’s good to be back in Pakistan. Five years ago, everyone was afraid, but the way we were taken care of everyone is now confident. And after we had our first training we are looking forward to the matches,” he said. “I haven’t been in the team for a while. I was not struggling but I had injuries that kept me out.”
Jayden Seales was shocked after receiving the call saying he had been selected as a reserve for the upcoming West Indies two-match Test series against New Zealand that bowls off on December 3 in New Zealand.
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The Hague — The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has hailed the surrender and transfer of former Darfur janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb, indicted by the court for crimes against humanity, as \"a milestone in the Darfur, Sudan situation\".
'The victims in the Darfur situation deserve to finally have their day in court'
\"Kushayb's surrender and transfer, almost two decades after his alleged crimes, is a powerful and sombre reminder that the victims of atrocity crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan have waited too long to see justice done.
Tangible justice
In her statement, Bensouda reiterates her call on Sudan's authorities \"to ensure tangible justice for the victims in Darfur without undue delay,\" underlining that \"all the five remaining arrest warrants in the Darfur situation, against Omar Al Bashir, Abdel Raheem Hussein, Ahmad Harun, and Abdallah Banda, remain in force.
'Ending impunity for atrocity crimes is also essential to achieve durable peace and security in Darfur'
\"Alternatively, under the Rome Statute, Sudan can demonstrate to the Judges of the Court that it is genuinely investigating and prosecuting the four remaining suspects for substantially the same criminal conduct alleged in their respective ICC arrest warrants.\"
On February 11 this year, government negotiators and the Sudan Revolutionary Front rebel alliance agreed during peace talks on the Darfur track in the South Sudan capital of Juba, to hand Al Bashir and the other ICC indictees to the court in The Hague.
Campaigning starts in Ivory Coast for a tense presidential election, with incumbent Alassane Ouattara seeking a controversial third term.
West Indies seamer, Shamilia Connell, yesterday said that she was disappointed at losing the series and blamed the bowling department.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Dave Cameron confirmed Friday he will be seeking to become the next head of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and will be asking Cricket West Indies (CWI), which he led for three terms, to back his nomination.
Cameron will require the support of two full members of the ICC in his bid to succeed Shashank Manohar of India as chairman of cricket’s world governing body.
Cameron, who lost the presidency of what was then called the West Indies Cricket Board to Ricky Skerrit in the March 2019 elections – in which he was seeking a fourth consecutive term – last month sent a legal letter to the regional body seeking a copy of the report that was submitted after an audit of the board’s finances under his tenure was done last year on behalf of the new administration.
If Cameron is successful in winning the race for ICC chairman, he would become the second West Indian to lead world cricket.
However, the US Cricket Hall of Fame – an organisation that honours cricket legends – has written to the world body recommending Cameron as the man for the job.
(ICC) Captains Jason Holder of the West Indies and Ben Stokes of England head into the opening match of their three-Test series as the top two all-rounders in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings, as well as the top-ranked batsmen from their respective sides.
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LONDON, CMC – As expected, Cricket Australia has scrapped a three-match Twenty20 series with West Indies scheduled for October.
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[Radio Dabanga] The Hague -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecution has asked the ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber II to postpone the 'confirmation of charges hearing' in the case of Ali Abdelrahman (also known as Ali Kushayb*) to June 1, 2021.
Violence rocked Guinea's capital Conakry on Friday as supporters of opposition leader Cellou Diallo clashed with security forces who tried to disperse them.
They threw stones and blocked roads. Police responded with teargas and bullets. The clashes erupted as soon as provisional results released by the electoral commission showed president Alpha Conde winning with a big margin.
Conde, 82, won twice as many votes as his nearest rival, opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo, with 37 of 38 districts counted, according to preliminary results from the commission.
Opposition supporters accuse the electoral authorities of rigging the vote for incumbent president Alpha Conde.
Sekou Koundouno, head of mobilisation for the opposition coalition FNDC said Conde had committed 'high treason'.
\"He is an illegal and illegitimate candidate who is stubbornly pursuing his obsession to turn Guin ea into a monarchy in which, by the way, he will dictate orders to his subjects,\" said Kounduno.
Diallo maintains that he won with a landslide despite irregularities, according to his own tally. He remains barricaded in his home which security forces have besieged since Monday.
ICC warning
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor warned on Friday that warring factions in Guinea could be prosecuted after fighting erupted.
“I wish to repeat this important reminder: anyone who commits, orders, incites, encourages and contributes in any other way to crimes … is liable to prosecution either by the Guinean courts or the ICC,” she said.
#ICC Prosecutor #FatouBensouda: "I wish to repeat this important reminder: anyone who commits, orders, incites, encourages or contributes, in any other way, to the commission of #RomeStatute crimes, is liable to prosecution either by #Guinean courts or by the #ICC."
— Int'l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) October 23, 2020
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
[New Zimbabwe] VETERAN former Zimbabwe national cricket captain Elton Chigumbura will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of the ongoing T20 International series against Pakistan, the local cricket governing board said Saturday.
Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. In the north, the land is arid; the southwest corner is in the fertile Lake Victoria Basin; and a length of the eastern depression of the Great Rift Valley separates western highlands from those that rise from the lowland coastal strip.
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Paleontologists believe people may first have inhabited Kenya about 2 million years ago. In the 700s, Arab seafarers established settlements along the coast, and the Portuguese took control of the area in the early 1500s. More than 40 ethnic groups reside in Kenya. Its largest group, the Kikuyu, migrated to the region at the beginning of the 18th century.
The land became a British protectorate in 1890 and a Crown colony in 1920, called British East Africa. Nationalist stirrings began in the 1940s, and in 1952 the Mau Mau movement, made up of Kikuyu militants, rebelled against the government. The fighting lasted until 1956.
On Dec. 12, 1963, Kenya achieved full independence. Jomo Kenyatta, a nationalist leader during the fight to win independence who had been jailed by the British, was its first president.
From 1964 to 1992, the country was ruled as a one-party state by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), first under Kenyatta, and then under Daniel arap Moi. Demonstrations and riots put pressure on Moi to allow multiparty elections in 1992.
The economy did not flourish under Mois rule. In the 1990s, Kenyas infrastructure began disintegrating and official graft was rampant, contributing to the withdrawal of much foreign aid. In early 1995, President Moi moved against the opposition and ordered the arrest of anyone who insulted him.
A series of disasters plagued Kenya in 1997 and 1998: severe flooding destroyed roads, bridges, and crops; epidemics of malaria and cholera overwhelmed the ineffectual health care system; and
[UN News] The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is urging Libya's warring parties to implement their recent historic ceasefire agreement, calling it a \"welcome concrete development\" for a population that has been yearning for peace.
May 3 – In Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States are entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
May 17 – In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. and in Bolling v. Sharpe, the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the separate but equal doctrine, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson and saying that segregation of public schools is unconstitutional.
July 30 – At a special meeting in Jackson, Mississippi called by Governor Hugh White, T.R.M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, along with nearly one hundred other black leaders, publicly refuse to support a segregationist plan to maintain separate but equal in exchange for a crash program to increase spending on black schools.
September 2 – In Montgomery, Alabama, 23 black children are prevented from attending all-white elementary schools, defying the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
September 7 – The District of Columbia ends segregated education; Baltimore, Maryland follows suit on September 8
September 15 – Protests by white parents in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia force schools to postpone desegregation another year.
September 16 – Mississippi abolishes all public schools with an amendment to its State Constitution; private segregation academies are founded for white students.
September 30 – Integration of a high school in Milford, Delaware collapses when white students boycott classes.
October 4 – Student demonstrations take place against integration of Washington, DC public schools.
October 19 – Federal judge upholds an Oklahoma law requiring African-American candidates to be identified on voting ballots as negro.
October 30 – Desegregation of U.S. Armed Forces said to be complete.
Frankie Muse Freeman is the lead attorney for the landmark NAACP case Davis et al. v. the St. Louis Housing Authority, which ended legal racial discrimination in the citys public housing. Constance Baker Motley was an attorney for
LAHORE — Pakistan spin-bowling all-rounder Shadab Khan has admitted that it would be foolish to underestimate Zimbabwe in the upcoming limited overs series. Shadab has been given more responsibility lately as he was named Pakistan’s vice-captain in limited overs cricket. Even though many people expect Pakistan to easily beat Zimbabwe, the 22-year-old doesn’t want to fall into the trap of becoming overconfident. “We won’t be taking Zimbabwe lightly at all. We are fully focused on the job at hand and during the season we are very keen on improving both our game and fitness,” he was quoted as saying by the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) website. “Many players discuss fitness and how to improve in that area, which is a positive sign indeed. For us, each and every point in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League matters. A convincing victory against Zimbabwe will hold us in good stead when we depart for the tour of New Zealand. “We had an excellent build-up to the Zimbabwe series with the National T20 Cup. The tournament was highly competitive. Such tournaments will help narrow the gap between domestic and international levels. The revamped domestic system surely provides that opportunity to the players.” Pakistan’s series against Zimbabwe will consist of three one-day internationals (ODIs) and three T20 Internationals, with all the matches taking place in Rawalpindi. The ODIs will be played from October 30 to November 3, while the T20 Internationals will run from November 7 to 10. Meanwhile, Khan’s inclusion in the first ODI against Zimbabwe is in doubt after the energetic cricketer missed the second intra-squad practice match at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore due to a leg strain. Khan was supposed to lead the Pakistan Whites side before being sidelined due to the strain. The PCB medical staff is currently monitoring the status of the all-rounder. According to sources, the management is unlikely to take a chance as far as Khan’s fitness is concerned. It should be noted that the all-rounder was supposed to assume the responsibility of vice-captain under captain Babar Azam in the limited-overs series against Zimbabwe. Series schedule Oct 30-Nov 1 ODI, Rawalpindi Nov 1 — second ODI, Rawalpindi Nov 3 — third ODI, Rawalpindi Nov 7 — first T20I, Lahore Nov 8 — second T20I, Lahore Nov 10 — third T20I, Lahore — Online
DUBAI, (Reuters) - Australia’s World Cup-winning all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame yesterday, along with South African Jacques Kallis and Pakistan batting great Zaheer Abbas.
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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) International cricket will gingerly ease out of a 117-day shutdown in Southampton next week but the scars of the COVID-19 pandemic will be clearly evident at the Ageas Bowl.
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Community members in northern Uganda have remained optimistic that the COVID-19 pandemic will not cause a delay in the delivery of the judgment in Dominic Ongwen's trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Uganda, Ongwen's home country, has been under a countrywide lockdown since April 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out there.
ICC prosecutors have charged Ongwen with crimes he allegedly committed as a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda between July 2002 and December 2005.
The countrywide lockdown has affected many spheres of life in Uganda, including community outreach critical for keeping local populations informed about the trial.
\"The discussion about the trial has gone silent due to the pandemic, and people are wondering when it will end, so that they resume work.
\"Individuals and NGOs are currently the only ones bringing cases to the African humans rights court,\" former deputy chairman of the ACHPR, Fatsah Ouguergouz, told DW.
\"The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights probably no longer has the interest in going to court, nor are the individual states prepared to do so,\" he said.
Up against weak justice systems
Human rights organization Amnesty International warns that many governments not only boycott the ACHPR but also weaken their own country's local courts.
\"The alternative is to tell people to turn to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to appeal to the court indirectly,\" Fidele Kikan, Amnesty International's Country Director in Benin, told DW.
Human rights activists like Kikan are also surprised by the fact that the same heads of state and government authorities who are rebelling in Africa against alleged paternalism by international courts aren't cooperating when it comes to African jurisdiction.
A new Trump executive order threatening the court’s operations has been condemned by prominent global institutions and individuals as it appears to give cover to human rights abuses committed in the course of U.S. foreign wars while demanding accountability from foreign countries in similar circumstances.
Param-Preet Singh of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, praised the decision of the ICC to greenlight an investigation of brutal crimes in Afghanistan, reaffirming the court’s essential role for victims when all other doors to justice are closed.
After years of collecting information on the Afghanistan war, the court’s chief prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda of The Gambia, said that enough information had been found to prove that U.S. forces “committed acts of torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, rape and sexual violence” in Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, and later in clandestine C.I.A. facilities in Poland, Romania and Lithuania.
She requested permission to open an investigation into claims of war crimes and crimes against humanity attributed to the U.S. military and intelligence personnel, the Taliban and Afghan forces.
Shaharzad Akbar, the head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said the court had made the right decision to procede over U.S. objections.
