Al-Hassan Abdul Aziz Ag Mohammad was additionally discovered responsible of crimes towards humanity. In line with the 822-page trial verdict, the costs embrace whipping, sexual slavery and damaging historic monuments within the historic metropolis of Timbuktu.
The restive West African nation has confronted an inflow of armed terror teams for greater than a decade, together with these linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIL/Da’esh).
Amputation and flogging
Court docket prosecutors stated Al Hassan, 46, was a key determine in Ansar Dine, one of many armed teams that seized energy in northern Mali and orchestrated a reign of terror within the regional capital, Timbuktu.
He faces prices of amputation and whipping whereas serving because the group’s “de facto Islamic police chief” from April 2012 to January 2013, in keeping with case recordsdata from a trial that started in 2020.
The Worldwide Legal Court docket issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Ag Mahmoud on 27 March 2018, and he surrendered to the Court docket 4 days later.
He faces life in jail, with sentencing to be carried out at a later date.
UN commits to increase support to Sudanese in humanitarian disaster
U.N. humanitarian personnel and companions are working to strengthen their response to deal with the deepening humanitarian disaster in Darfur, Khartoum and different “hotspots” in war-torn Sudan, a U.N. spokesman stated on Wednesday.
Stefan Dujarric stated the scenario in and across the besieged North Darfur state capital El Fasher remained “extraordinarily worrying” and that Fast Assist Forces militiamen had surrounded the final government-controlled metropolis within the area .
The United Nations Youngsters’s Fund (UNICEF) highlighted that greater than 400 kids have reportedly been killed or disabled within the current escalation of combating.
deadly scenario
Mr Dujarric added: “The continued use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas poses additional dangers to civilians and support staff.”
In the meantime, the World Meals Program (WFP) has distributed emergency meals and dietary provides to greater than 135,000 folks in Gezira state in east-central Sudan.
That is the primary time WFP provides have arrived at Sudan’s former granary since combating unfold to the state capital Wadmadani in December, forcing the WFP to briefly relocate.
Elsewhere, WFP convoys are transporting greater than 2,300 tonnes of meals support to some 164,000 males, ladies and kids affected by the battle, crossing the border from Chad into Darfur and en path to North and Central Darfur on the way in which.
Some 14 million kids, greater than half of Sudan’s 24 million kids, are in pressing want of humanitarian help.
UN Police Summit showcases the function of regulation enforcement in selling peace
Authorities leaders and police chiefs gathered on the United Nations Headquarters in New York for a summit to additional strengthen the function of police personnel as key brokers of peace.
The fourth United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS) opened on Thursday, aiming to construct on the momentum of current high-level peacekeeping initiatives and reinforce the significance of multilateralism.
The official theme is Advancing our shared safety: United Nations policing in a brand new period.
Members will maintain a dialogue to “improve worldwide peace, safety and improvement for all by way of the unified energy and enabling function of nationwide and United Nations policing”.
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Underneath-Secretary-Basic for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix (proper) and United Nations Police Advisor Faisal Shakal transient reporters on the fourth United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS 2024).
Alternative knocks on the door
Briefing reporters on Wednesday, Underneath-Secretary-Basic for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix stated UNPOL (the United Nations police element) gives experience and help to: member states on demand.
The problem comes with having to cope with the pressures and impacts of local weather change, environmental degradation, transnational crime and international terrorism.
“That’s the reason we connect nice significance, notably to our capacity-building actions, to strengthen the rule of regulation capabilities of the member states we work with, and particularly to assist them higher reply to those challenges,” Mr Lacroix stated.
