Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in as president of Kenya
Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in as the Kenya’s fourth president Tuesday in a stadium filled with tens of thousands of Kenyans and a dozen African leaders.
Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in as the Kenya’s fourth president Tuesday in a stadium filled with tens of thousands of Kenyans and a dozen African leaders.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday said it could not consider suggestions to open a 13th slot in next year’s senatorial race in anticipation of the departure of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago for the International Criminal Court (ICC) until the senator herself announces when she is leaving.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago on Thursday branded her enemies “mongoloids” and challenged them to a fistfight.
Only 12 and not 13 vacant Senate seats. Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago advised the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to list only 12 vacancies in the 2013 senatorial elections “out of prudence” since she could not predict when she would leave the chamber to join the International Criminal Court (ICC).
A scientific journal says that Romania’s new prime minister has copied large swathes of his doctoral thesis without proper attribution.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said Wednesday that judges will decide whether to let Moammar Gadhafi’s son be prosecuted for war crimes on Libyan soil instead of at the tribunal based in The Hague, Netherlands and one issue is whether a Libyan court would conduct an independent and impartial trial.
NATO officials are worried that their organization may be investigated by the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor said allegations of crimes committed by NATO in Libya would be examined “impartially and independently,” according to diplomats accredited to NATO headquarters.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has nominated Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago as the country’s candidate for judge of the Hague-based International Criminal Court which will hold in New York the election of judges in December.
The Senate has approved on third and final reading a resolution concurring in the ratification of the Rome Statute paving the way for the country’s membership in the International Criminal Court that tries war crimes and other atrocities. Seventeen senators voted in favor of concurrence while Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile was the lone dissenter. [...]
ROME—World leaders on Monday said the end was near for the regime of Moammar Gadhafi and called on the Libyan leader to relinquish power, as hundreds of Libyans living abroad celebrated in the streets after rebels took control of most of the Libyan capital. With events unfolding quickly and clashes reported near Gadhafi’s compound in [...]
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago formally sought Senate concurrence in the ratification of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court.
World crimes court judges are to decide Monday whether to issue an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for crimes against humanity committed against opponents of his regime.
