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Lundin - The trial in Sweden is scheduled to last until 2026.

Lundin: serious, intimate, Sweden's longest trial sets up for the long haul

A sparse audience settled in to listen to prosecutors accuse - over 22 days - two big business bosses, in a trial due to end on February 19, 2026. On the seventh day, the prosecutor showed reports in the Stockholm courthouse of population displacement in Sudan, looting, rapes and a litany of violence that occurred […]

By Olivier Truc (in Stockholm, Sweden)

Herero genocide in Namibia - Propaganda painting showing German soldiers confronting Herero fighters.

A stroll into Germany’s conflicted postcolonial memory

Abdoulaye Hissène accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic - Reading of a report

Central African Republic: Abdoulaye Hissène caught in Special Criminal Court

Félicien Kabuga and justice

Kabuga and The Ghost of Justice Yet to Come

The Lundin trial could worry multinationals - Bubbles in an oil puddle in Sudan.

Lundin trial: "a strong signal to business"

Lundin trial in Sweden: when oil and war crimes mix in Sudan.

Oil and war crimes in Sudan: Lundin trial opens in Sweden

Oil pump

The Lundin moment

1st judgement of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic - Issa Sallet Adoum watches Mahamat Tahir, lying on the floor, weakened by a hunger strike. These are 2 of the 3 defendants on trial.

CAR: how Special Criminal Court appeal judges innovated and proposed a model

Genocost - A victim of the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still waiting to be

When will Congolese “Genocost” victims receive reparations?

Exhumations in Gambia - Pieces of cloth unearthed from a grave at Yundum military camp

Gambia: why after four years identity of the exhumed remains unknown?

End of the Kabuga trial - The final curtain has fallen on the trial of Félicien Kabuga.

Final curtain falls on Kabuga trial

Pierre Basabosé - His trial for genocide (in Rwanda) is taking place in Belgium at the Brussels Assize Court.

Pierre Basabosé is "mentally absent” but will be tried

Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda - A man is judged in the midst of the population in a

Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: causes, what happened, and justice

France-Cameroon commission - Can a commission of historians help the two countries on the road to reconciliation? Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Paul Biya speak at a press conference in Cameroon.

Colonial past: can a historians’ commission help reconcile Cameroon?

Conakry massacre Trial in Guinea - Marcel Guilavogui (former bodyguard of the

At Guinea massacre trial, Dadis Camara is accused by his bodyguard

Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court (ICC)

ICC confirms $30m reparations in DR Congo warlord case

Enforced disappearances in The Gambia - Photos of people who disappeared during Yahya Jammeh's reign.

The disappeared in The Gambia, a missing investigation

The credibility of witnesses was at the heart of the Hategekimana trial. Accused of genocide in Rwanda, he was on trial in France. Verdict: life imprisonment.

Hategekimana proves classic Rwandan case

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

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