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JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Ellis, a historian at the African Studies Centre, says that the recent influx of refugees from Libya has exacerbated the problem of organized crime in West Africa and has caused emerging complications that are generating increased...

Mali signed an agreement Friday with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to become the first African country to agree to enforce the ICC's sentences of imprisonment. Article 103 of the Rome Statute , which governs...

More than 20,000 children are subjected to harsh and unsafe conditions while working in Malian gold mines, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. Children reportedly carry heavy ore from the mining shafts and...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the government of Iraqi Kurdistan to outlaw female genital mutilation (FGM) in a report published Wednesday. The report, "They Took Me and Told Me Nothing," calls...

An Algerian criminal court on Sunday acquitted former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mustafa Hemlili of charges of counterfeiting and affiliation to a militant group that is active abroad. Hemlili was released from Guantanamo, along with fellow inmate...

JURIST Guest Columnist Roland Adjovi of Arcadia University in Arusha, Tanzania, says that to gain and maintain credibility in the wake of its first judgment, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights should streamline its policy rationale and procedure,...

The UN General Assembly passed a resolution Monday to consolidate four agencies to create one large, overarching department that will be responsible for women's rights development. The UN Development Fund for Women, the Division...

Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure announced Wednesday that he will not sign a controversial law expanding women's rights, after objections by the country's High Islamic Council. The announcement followed a mass demonstration against the law...

More than 50,000 people gathered in the Mali capital of Bamako on Sunday to protest a law passed recently by the National Assembly to extend the rights of women. The new law gives...

Sudanese war crimes suspect and rebel leader Bahr Idriss Abu Garda on Sunday surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Abu Garda is accused of committing three crimes against the African Union Mission in Sudan...