The former leader of a Congolese militia has been acquitted By the International Criminal Court, who had charged him with 7 counts of war crimes and 3 counts of crimes against humanities.
Two men convicted for their roles in the Rwandan genocide have been granted early release from their imprisonment in Mali by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT).
The MICT was established in 2010 to handle assist both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Leaders of Iraq and the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan warned that they were close to civil war, due to Exxon Mobil’s attempt to drill for oil, amidst negotiations between the two opposing armies.
A faction of the Syrian opposition has captured an infantry base in Aleppo, the second key army base in a week.
According to a post on al-Tawheed Brigade's website today, the army base known as Hanano Barracks was taken yesterday, with the rebel brigade's commander, Colonel Youseff al-Jader being killed during the battle.
Indonesian police have shot dead two members of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), a separatist group, campaigning for West Papuan independence.
Hubertus Mabel, 30, and Natalis Alua were killed, bringing the toal of KNPB members killed this year to 22.
Egypt’s public prosecutor, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi, resigned from his post on Monday, in a move that was seen by Morsi’s opponents as a victory for the independence of the judiciary.
The French government has come under fire for being a haven for Rwandan genocide suspects after a controversial court ruling earlier this week.
A French court decided to grant residence to Agathe Habyarimana (also known as Agathe Kanziga), widow of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, who is wanted in Rwanda under charges of genocide.
French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius said on Sunday that he believes Assad’s regime is on the brink of collapse and that the new opposition coalition must be supported to keep power out of the hands of extremists.
France was the first Western country to recognise the Syrian National Coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
The Libyan government has closed its borders with its southern neighbours, over fears of an influx of illegal immigrants and goods.
A parliamentary decree declared that the southern regions of Ghadames, Ghat, Obari, Al-Shati, Sebha, Murzuq and Kufra would be "considered as closed military zones to be ruled under emergency law".
A Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus was reportedly struck by airstrikes from Syrian government forces, killing at least 8 people.
The strike on Yarmouk camp, the largest refugee camp in Damascus, reportedly struck the Abdel Qader Husseini Mosque, where more than 600 people had been sheltering.
Officials from the Afghan government are to hold talks with the Taliban and other groups, in Paris at the end of this week, aimed at discussing the pullout of NATO troops in 2014.
Speaking on RFI radio, France's foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said:
"Discreet talks have been taking place between different factions for three years," Fabius said.
Riot police arrested four opposition leaders at an anti-Putin rally in Moscow on Saturday.
The rally, techinically illegal, took place at the former KGB security police's headquarters, and were intended to mark one year from the first anti-Putin demonstrations.
Protesters marched shouting, "Free political prisoners!", and "Down with the police state".
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has slammed the UN Security Council for its lack of action against Sudanese war criminals.
She said the ICC had uncovered "ongoing pattern of crimes committed pursuant to the government-avowed goal of stopping the rebellion in Darfur," but the Security Council had not taken sufficient action.
