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Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru died on Monday at his home in Karen, Nairobi. He was aged 50. Gicheru became a household name in 2020 after charges of alleged bribery of witnesses testifying at the International Criminal Court (ICC) were preferred against him at the Hague-based court. He was accused of bribing and intimidating witnesses in the failed […]
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Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
(Cricinfo) Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Ricky Skerritt has quashed speculation linking the West Indies tour of England to a US$3 million loan to CWI by the ECB in May, a loan that eventually became the subject of an ICC ethics inquiry.
Skerritt also denied that the loan ensured CWI’s backing for Colin Graves – the outgoing ECB head – for the ICC chairman’s position, elections for which are due by July.
Skerritt said instead the loan was a “helping hand” given the direness of CWI’s financial situation, one exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Skerritt said CWI was transparent with ICC about the need for a short-term loan, and ECB’s involvement.
Skerritt said the only pre-condition set for the tour was for the safety and security of his players and once that was assured, the tour would go ahead as it was part of the ICC FTP agreement and the World Test Championship
(Reuters) - USA Cricket has launched its first strategic plan https://www.usacricket.org/media-release/usa-cricket-launches-foundational-plan
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Former Australia Women’s Cricket Team Captain Belinda Clark is calling for more investment into women’s cricket.
Clarke’s comments were made during a Cricket webinar series held on Wednesday along with Arijana Demirovic, head of FIFA’s Women’s Football Development.
The duo’s discussions centered on the infrastructure and environment needed to encourage women in sports especially after the successes of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 in France and the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia.
The one-hour conversation was moderated by cricket commentator Mel Jones.
Clark, the first female cricketer to score a double-century in ODIs, said it was important to continue the good work.
The trial of a Malian jihadist accused of demolishing Timbuktu's fabled shrines and unleashing a reign of terror has begun at the International Criminal Court.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) - Fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck has been ruled out of Australia’s limited overs series against New Zealand by injury, while all-rounder Ellyse Perry was named in the squad yesterday but subject to fitness.
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Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2020: Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many - that Bio’s “New Direction” was serious about \"a new direction\". The Bible and…
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Legendary fast bowler, Courtney Walsh has been appointed head coach of West Indies Women, just 24 hours after they suffered a chastening 5-0 whitewash at the hands of England.
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By Vinode Mamchan
(Trinidad Guardian) Cricket West Indies (CWI) has come good on their promise and has repaid the England Cricket Board (ECB) the US$3M (TT$20.2m) loan that the organisation got in May to help settle players’ outstanding salaries.
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How tall of a task will it be for Ricky Skerritt and his team at Cricket West Indies (CWI) to support Dave Cameron’s ambitions of becoming the next Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
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The Chicago Police Department announced that a newly promoted deputy police chief was found dead Tuesday morning of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Homan Square police facility on…
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Women batting star, Deandra Dottin, says she is hoping to extend her recent rich vein of form when she turns out in the Women’sT20 Challenge starting next month in the United Arab Emirates.
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Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo can leave Belgium under certain conditions, the International Criminal Court said on Thursday, following his acquittal last year over post-election violence that killed 3 000 people.
Gbagbo, the first head of state to stand trial in The Hague, and his deputy Charles Ble Goude were cleared in early 2019 of crimes against humanity - eight years after the former West African strongman's arrest and transfer to the court.
Belgium had agreed to host Gbagbo after he was released under strict conditions, including his return to court for a prosecution appeal against his acquittal.
It therefore remains uncertain if Gbagbo can return to Ivory Coast, where his Ivorian Popular Front Party (FPI) is preparing to challenge President Alassane Ouattara's ruling party in elections scheduled for October.
Gbagbo and Ble Goude had been charged with four counts of crimes against humanity over the 2010-2011 bloodshed following a disputed vote in Ivory Coast: murder, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Dave Cameron confirmed Friday he will be seeking to become the next head of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and will be asking Cricket West Indies (CWI), which he led for three terms, to back his nomination.
Cameron will require the support of two full members of the ICC in his bid to succeed Shashank Manohar of India as chairman of cricket’s world governing body.
Cameron, who lost the presidency of what was then called the West Indies Cricket Board to Ricky Skerrit in the March 2019 elections – in which he was seeking a fourth consecutive term – last month sent a legal letter to the regional body seeking a copy of the report that was submitted after an audit of the board’s finances under his tenure was done last year on behalf of the new administration.
If Cameron is successful in winning the race for ICC chairman, he would become the second West Indian to lead world cricket.
However, the US Cricket Hall of Fame – an organisation that honours cricket legends – has written to the world body recommending Cameron as the man for the job.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women’s captain, Stafanie Taylor, is set to miss Adelaide Strikers’ opening two games of the Women’s Big Bash League due to quarantine.
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Kushayb, a senior Janjaweed commander in the early years of the conflict, was the target of a 2007 ICC arrest warrant on multiple counts including rape, murder and pillaging.
Hassan al-Senousi, another displaced Darfuri at the Al-Sarif camp near South Darfur's regional capital Nyala, said Kushayb's arrest brought him \"deep satisfaction\".
Kushayb's arrest comes less than a year after a transitional government took power following Bashir's ouster by the military in April 2019 on the back of vast protests against his rule.
Kushayb is set to be the first of five Sudanese suspects wanted by the ICC over atrocities in Darfur to appear before the court.
\"Kushayb's arrest is a success for international justice and... for the victims,\" Minni Minnawi, leader of a rebel group active in Darfur Sudanese Liberation Army, wrote on Twitter.
Concerned Sierra Leoneans: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2020: We are immensely despondent to witness the premeditated killings by the Sierra Leone security forces of unarmed and innocent youths, who staged a peaceful protest against the removal of their electricity asset that belongs to the Municipality of Makeni on the [Read More]
MANCHESTER, England – West Indies players will wear the Black Lives Matter logo on their playing shirts when they face England throughout the upcoming #RaiseTheBat Test Series, starting July 4, as part of the Sandals Tour of England 2020.
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The ANC says it has not shifted from its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) yesterday announced that New Zealand Cricket (NZC) had confirmed the West Indies men’s team tour of New Zealand later this year.
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(Reuters) The International Cricket Council (ICC) will not launch an investigation into match fixing claims linked with the 2011 World Cup final due to a lack of supporting evidence, anti-corruption unit general manager Alex Marshall said yesterday.
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West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel believes the West Indies should play to their strength and replicate the plans which brought them overwhelming success against England last year.
Now, fast forward to 2020 and the West Indies are in England to face the home side in three Test matches.
West Indies will have two inter-squad warm-up matches in Manchester before they travel to Southampton.
I’m about 85-90 percent fit, but in terms of bowling fitness and match readiness, I still have some more work to do to hit my rhythm, but there are still three weeks and two warm-up games before the first Test match.”
The West Indies squad will live, train and play in a “bio-secure” environment during the seven weeks of the tour, as part of the comprehensive medical and operations plans to ensure player and staff safety.
Just as Sudans civil war seemed to be coming to an end, another war intensified in the northwestern Darfur region. After the government quelled a rebellion in Darfur in Jan. 2004, it allowed pro-government militias called the Janjaweed to carry out massacres against black villagers and rebel groups in the region. These Arab militias, believed to have been armed by the government, have killed between 200,000 and 300,000 civilians and displaced more than 1 million. While the war in the south was fought against black Christians and animists, the Darfur conflict is being fought against black Muslims. Although the international community has reacted with alarm to the humanitarian disaster—unmistakably the worlds worst—it has been ineffective in persuading the Sudanese government to rein in the Janjaweed. Despite the EU and the U.S. describing the killing as genocide, and despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Sudan stop the Arab militias, the killing continued throughout 2005.
On Jan. 9, 2005, after three years of negotiations, the peace deal between the southern rebels, led by John Garang of the SPLA, and the Khartoum government to end the two-decades-long civil war was signed, giving roughly half of Sudan’s oil wealth to the south, as well as nearly complete autonomy and the right to secede after six years. But just two weeks after Garang was sworn in as first vice president as part of the power-sharing agreement, he was killed in a helicopter crash during bad weather. Rioting erupted in Khartoum, killing nearly 100. Garang’s deputy, Salva Kiir, was quickly sworn in as the new vice president, and both north and south vowed that the peace agreement would hold.
In 2006, the slaughter in Darfur escalated, and the Khartoum government remained defiantly indifferent to the international communities calls to stop the violence. The 7,000 African Union (AU) peacekeepers deployed to Darfur proved too small and ill equipped a force to prevent much of it. A fragile peace deal in May 2006 was signed between
LONDON, CMC – As expected, Cricket Australia has scrapped a three-match Twenty20 series with West Indies scheduled for October.
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[Nation] The International Criminal Court has distanced itself from any investigations which might be going on in the country with the aim of reviving the 2007/08 post-election violence cases.
Press Release - Address by the Minister of Sport, Arts & Culture, Hon EN Mthethwa, at the Press Briefing on Ministerial Interventions at Cricket SA
(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Windies fast bowler, now pundit, Michael Holding, has commented on whether cricketers should use their platform to speak up on racial injustice.
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Trial Chamber IX has declined to conditionally release Dominic Ongwen from the International Criminal Court (ICC) detention center while he awaits judgment.
Together with the issue of whether to conditionally release Ongwen, Trial Chamber IX asked the different legal teams to give their views on the separate matter of the communications restrictions imposed on Ongwen since June 2015.
In a June 8, 2015 order, the Single Judge of Pre-Trial Chamber II, Cuno Tarfusser, imposed temporary restrictions on Ongwen's non-privileged communications after there were suspicions he was trying to influence individuals who had \"information relevant to the case.\"
Judge Tarfusser did not identify the individuals, but it later emerged during the trial that they were former \"wives\" of Ongwen.
In a June 24, 2015 decision related to the restrictions, Judge Tarfusser described, without naming names, how Ongwen was suspected to have tried to influence individuals the prosecution at the time described as \"potential prosecution witnesses.\"
Cricket Australia, in agreement with Zimbabwe Cricket, announced on Tuesday that the one-day international series that was due to be played in August has been postponed, the ICC website reported. The tour has been postponed indefinitely, becoming the latest series to be pushed ahead due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ODIs were originally scheduled to be played on 9, 12 and 15 August. The release from Cricket Australia said that factors were considered before deciding to postpone the series were – the short length of the series, the significant bio-security measures that would need to be implemented prior to August, and concern for the health and safety of players, match officials, and volunteers. While we are disappointed to postpone the series, CA and ZC agree that in the best interest of players, match officials, volunteers as well as our fans, that this is the most practical and sensible decision, said Nick Hockley the interim CEO of Cricket Australia. We are committed to working with Zimbabwe Cricket on alternative dates to reschedule. Givemore Makoni, the acting managing director of Zimbabwe Cricket, also stated that the two boards are working closely on rescheduling the series. We were excited about facing Australia but, given the circumstances, deferring the tour was the only option. We are, however, looking forward to the rescheduling of the series as soon as practically possible, he said. Zimbabwe has been preparing for the tour to Australia for some time, although there were always fears that the coronavirus outbreak would scupper the tour. The southern African nations cricketing fortunes have been on the wane for a while and tours to the bigger cricketing countries have been few and far in between. The Australian tour would have been beneficial for Zimbabwe, as it was a chance to show that the country was still a force to reckon with. Afghanistan is due to visit Zimbabwe either in July or August.
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Adjourned to September 15th, the trial of ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir over the Islamist-backed coup that enabled him to take power 1989 — which he then maintained for 30 years.
The presiding judge made the declaration on Tuesday following procedural questions and inquiries about covid-19 prevention measures in the courtroom during the session broadcast on Sudan TV. Bashir and other figures from his regime were shown standing behind bars in the courtroom amidst tight security.
Tag al-Din Banaga, a defence lawyer for the National Congress Party, shared some information, \"There is another request that we are insisting on and is related to the establishment of the court itself: the constitutional document that is governing the ruling during the transitional period states that ‘There are no special courts’ and he is now being tried in a special court with all the procedures of the special court, and this for us is a violation of the constitutional document.\"
Bashir — who is facing the death penalty, could also stand trial before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity as per the request of new authorities in February
The trial comes as Sudan's joint civilian-military transitional government is pushing a wave of political and social reforms and on Monday agreed on a peace deal with most rebel groups.
Omar al-Bashir was indicted by the ICC over the Darfur conflict that erupted in 2003 when rebels from the ethnic minority began a violent uprising — accusing Khartoum of political and economic marginalisation of their region.
The United Nations estimates around 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million displaced as a result of the conflict.
