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Venant Rutunga, extradited to Rwanda from the Netherlands to stand trial for genocide.

Rwanda: Venant Rutunga, a genocide suspect who can defend himself

Many trials of genocide suspects sent back to Rwanda have been concluded without defence witnesses. But at the trial of Venant Rutunga, extradited from the Netherlands, several witnesses came to his defence. One of them publicly expressed surprise at the accusations against a "man of integrity, as good as a priest".

By Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro

Genocide in Rwanda - Drawing showing Philippe Hategekimana at his trial in Paris.

Philippe Hategekimana makes final statement, then goes silent

Félicien Kabuga

Has trying Kabuga become absurd?

The children of genocide in Rwanda - Hategekimana trial / France Manier in France

I was 10 years old in Rwanda in 1994 and now a prosecution witness

Judge Aimée-Pascal Delimo (Special Criminal Court / SPC) in the Central African Republic.

Central African Republic: Special Court hands down first reparations decision

Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), visits a camp set up for victims of the conflict in Darfur, Sudan.

ICC: the never-ending nightmare of Darfur's victims

Kabuga trial - Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, seems to be running away from a radio displaying the date of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis of Rwanda. Banknotes fly around him.

Kabuga: heading for a palliative trial?

Fulgence Kayishema (former Rwandan fugitive) appears at the Cape Town Tribunal in South Africa. He is indicted by the ICTR for his participation in the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.

Rwanda: slowly, the justice net is closing on the last genocide fugitives

Alieu Kosiah was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at his trial in Switzerland.

Appeals court convicts Liberian Alieu Kosiah of crimes against humanity

Transitional justice in The Gambia - President Adama Barrow has published a plan to implement the recommendations of the Truth Commission.

Is The Gambia a step closer to moving on with trials and reparations?

Funding problems at the Conakry trial in Guinea (

Conakry’s groundbreaking trial threatened by financial issues

Genocide in Rwanda - At the Hategekimana trial in Paris (France), Rwandan priest Hormisdas Nsengimana was called as a witness.

Controversial priest dodges in Hategekimana trial

Philippe Hategekimana (or Philippe Manier / former Rwandan gendarme) at his trial in Paris, France.

Hategekimana trial: former Rwandan soldiers have memory gaps

Trial of the September 28, 2009 massacre in Guinea - Arbitrary detentions, torture... Victims testify about what happened after.

Conakry trial: torture and arbitrary detention in military camps

Genocide in Rwanda - Trial in France of ex-gendarme Philippe Manier (formerly Philippe Hategekimana)

Genocide in Rwanda: the multiple lives of a gendarmerie officer on trial in Paris

Kober prison break in Sudan: is it an escape or a release? Suspects from the International Criminal Court (ICC) were held there before disappearing.

Sudan: who helped the ICC suspects break jail?

Sudan's Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commander, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti)

Sudan and the power(lessness) of the ICC

Thierno Mamadou Diallo, witness to the 2009 stadium massacre in Guinea.

Guinea Stadium Trial: "There was this boy..."

Tensions between South Africa and the ICC - Vladimir Putin speaks in Cyril Ramaphosa's ear

Why South Africa said it was leaving the ICC, then flip-flopped