Africa
Sahara drug trade funds Boko Haram insurgency
Traffickers have established a dope-for-guns pipeline across the Sahel and Sahara, integrating Boko Haram into drug-smuggling networks that stretch to Asia.
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Africa
Ex-LRA commander appears before ICC
Former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen, himself once a child solider abducted at age 14, made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court.
Africa
Chad to fight Boko Haram in Cameroon
Advance units of a thousands-strong Chadian intervention force arrived in Cameroon to fight Boko Haram rebels. A critical oil pipeline passes through the war-torn border.
Africa
China sends combat troops to South Sudan
A 700-strong Chinese battalion is headed for South Sudan as part of a UN "peacekeeping" mission—but the deployment follows China's massive investment in the country's oil sector.
Africa
Uganda rebel commander to be transferred to ICC
Uganda sid it will send Dominic Ongwen, a leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, to trial at the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Africa
Boko Haram massacres 2,000: Amnesty
Up to 2,000 are feared dead in an ongoing massacre after Boko Haram seized Baga, a town on Nigeria's border with Chad in Borno state. The town was reportedly "razed to the ground."
Africa
Shell agrees to settlement in Niger Delta oil spills
Royal Dutch Shell reached an $84 million settlement over Niger Delta oil spills, in what Amnesty International called "an important victory for the victims of corporate negligence."
Africa
UN issues report on CAR war crimes
The UN released its report finding that acts committed by armed factions in the Central African Republic constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity, but not genocide.
Africa
Kenya approves harsh anti-terrorism law
Kenya's parliament passed a sweeping new anti-terrorism law after some of its members engaged in a shoving match that led to blows being exchanged.
Africa
Police ‘anti-crime’ extermination campaign in DRC
The decades-long civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is leaving in its wake a police state that sees impoverished youth as a threat and seeks to exterminate them.
Africa
More ICC trials for Ivory Coast political figures
The International Criminal Court announced a trial for Charles Blé Goudé, ally of ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, and demanded that Ivory Coast turn over Gbagbo's wife, Simone Gbagbo.
Africa
ICC halts Darfur probe; Bashir threatens rebels
The International Criminal Court suspended its Darfur investigation, citing UN inaction in the case, as President Omar al-Bashir accused rebel leaders of being foreign "agents."