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Somalia UN World Food Program: Refuses to pay and finance Al-Shabaab terrorism

  A human migration that started more than a month     A table made of bits and pieces, an old notebook, green crumbling walls: this is where Luul Mohamed, the 46-year-old head of the pediatrics department at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu examines a hundred children every day. Sheesam comes in with her mother. She…

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Gadafii Mercenaries paid between $300 and $2,000 a day

After decades of financing and training rebels and liberation movements, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is accused of using his influence to amass an army of mercenaries from across sub-Saharan Africa. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Chad, Mali and Zimbabwe: One only has to name a conflict, rebel group or despot in Africa to find someone the Libyan…

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The Supermodel Shines Light on War Crimes Trial

Editor`s note: Christopher Santora worked as a prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2002 to 2005 in cases against various faction leaders from the country’s 11-year war. He also served as prosecutor from 2007 to 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands, in the case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor, and was involved…

Naomi Campbell gave blood diamonds to charity

Supermodel Naomi Campbell testified at the war crimes trial today of former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor that she accepted a gift of uncut, dirty stones — possible “blood diamonds” — after attending a 1997 dinner with the dictator at Nelson Mandela’s home in South Africa. But Campbell stopped short of calling the stones diamonds, and…