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Later on today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will deliver its sentence to the senior commander of the LRA, Dominic Ongwen. Earlier this year, Ongwen was found guilty of 61 offenses of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is said to have committed these crimes between 2003 and 2004 in Northern Uganda under the civil rebellion led by Joseph ...

The government of Gambia said on Tuesday it was withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, accusing the world body of ignoring the “war crimes” of Western nations and seeking only to prosecute Africans. Check also: South Africa Is Ready To Withdraw From ICC The decision by the tiny West African nation, whose president, Yahya Jammeh, has called on the court to ...