Darfur: the trial of a militia leader opens before the ICC
A former militia leader will be the first person to be tried before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday for atrocities committed in Darfur, the scene of a bloodbath nearly twenty years ago. At least 45 people died the week before these hearings in new tribal clashes in this region of western Sudan regularly bereaved by violence, according to local security authorities. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, 72, a collaborator of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, was the leader of the Janjawid militia, an auxiliary force of the Sudanese government accused of abuses during the conflict in Darfur. Also known by his nom de guerre Ali Kosheib, he is accused of 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in 2003-2004 in Darfur. The conflict erupted at the time when members of ethnic minorities took up arms against the Arab majority-dominated regime in Khartoum. Khartoum responded with the Janjaweed, a force drawn from the region's nomadic tribes. Human rights groups said they had carried out a "systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing" targeting the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. The human toll of the conflict is estimated at 300,000 dead and 2.5 million displaced, according to the United Nations.
At the trial of an IS "Beatle", the words of the relatives of an executed journalist
The relatives of American journalist James Foley, executed in 2014 in Syria, told the trial of one of his alleged kidnappers on Monday how they had first taken the video showing his beheading to be a "cruel joke", before that it "burns their brains". "I didn't want to believe it, it was just too horrible," his mother, Diane Foley, said on the fourth day of the trial, near Washington, of El Shafee el-Sheikh, an Islamic State (IS) jihadist. ). This 33-year-old man, stripped of his British nationality, is accused of having been part of a group of particularly cruel guards nicknamed the "Beatles" by their prisoners because of their English accent. James Foley, a freelance photographer, is among their victims. In October 2012, he flew to cover the Syrian conflict, promising his family to return for Christmas. His relatives began to worry in November: "James always called us for the Thanksgiving holiday, which is very popular in the United States. And there, there was "a deafening silence", explained his mother. Soon after, a colleague of James's told them that he had been abducted, along with British reporter John Cantlie.
Climate: a livable future possible if the world decides to act
'Hollow' promises are dragging the planet towards disastrous 3degC warming but the world still has a chance to avoid the worst: radically transform the economy and cap emissions within three years, starting with detox fossil fuels. The third part of the scientific trilogy of UN climate experts (IPCC) published on Monday leaves no room for doubt: without a "rapid, radical and most often immediate" reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors, it will not be possible to limit warming to +1.5 degC compared to the pre-industrial era, nor even to +2 degC. According to the report, without a reinforcement of current policies, the world is heading for a warming of +3.2 degC by the end of the century, and even if the commitments made by governments for the UN climate conference COP26 in 2021 were held, the mercury would rise by +2.8 degC, while each additional tenth of a degree causes its share of new climatic disasters.
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Captagon trafficking in the Middle East reached $5 billion (4.5 billion euros) in 2021, reflecting an exponential increase in a vast illicit trade that poses a growing risk to health and safety in the region , according to a study by the New Lines Institute, which is to be published on Tuesday and which AFP was able to consult.
He claimed his innocence throughout the trial: Mamadou Diallo, accused of the bloody murder of a 41-year-old postwoman, Catherine Burgod, in 2008 in Montreal-la-Cluse, was acquitted on Monday by the Assize Court of 'Ain for the benefit of the doubt', after almost five hours of deliberation. He was released from prison around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning.
A "light earthquake" of magnitude 4.7 on the Richter scale, felt by some residents, was recorded in Guadeloupe early Monday evening, said the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Guadeloupe (OVSG) in a press release. It occurred at 6:02 p.m. (22:02 GMT), at a depth of 30 kilometers and about fifty kilometers off the north of Grande-Terre.