As South Sudan approaches its planned December elections, the United Nations has raised serious concerns about the country’s readiness. Nicholas Haysom, the UN’s top envoy, told the Security Council that political players are still debating whether voting should occur this year, casting doubt on the December 22 date announced by the National Elections Commission. The […]
Barrick Gold Corporation said that it remains restricted from shipping gold from the Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex in Mali, where authorities have also seized the company’s existing gold stock from the site to a custodial bank. Malian authorities have seized an amount of gold estimated at $245 million in an escalation of their long-running dispute with […]
The International Criminal Court, ICC, Monday wielded prosecution against mercenaries and foreign troops in Libya for using detention centers to commit a variety of serious crimes, The New Arab reports. The Hague-based court’s Chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda indicated during a virtual meeting of the UN Security Council on Libya that her office has received […]
