Judges at the International Criminal Court have ordered Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend a hearing over how to proceed with his stalled trial for crimes against humanity, the tribunal said on Friday.
Several who are familiar with global diplomacy had told Reuters that there would be difficulty getting a consensus from countries to try leaders in North Korea over alleged crimes against humanity.
Reuters had said that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had been using his position of power to stall an impending trial at the International Criminal Court over allegations that he and vice president William Ruto orchestrated ethnic violence in 2007.
A landmark vote by members of the Ukrainian parliament accelerated efforts to find fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and several of his aides to stand trial for conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, the Guardian said in a report.
The Guardian said in a report that North Korea under leader Kim Jong-un refused to acknowledge the actions and the results of the investigation launched by a UN commission to review the reported human rights abuses against its citizens.
The three-member UN Commission of Inquiry led by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby concluded as per evidence that North Korea conducted an array of crimes against humanity, and will formally turn its findings over to the International Criminal Court, said an anonymous source who had been briefed of the conclusions of the commission report.
Chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the International Criminal Court at the Hague that Congolese militia leader and fugitive Bosco Ntaganda played a key role in planning the many war crimes against the ethnic Lendus people.
In the council's response to the growing violence happening in the Central African Republic, International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said her office will be investigating potential war crimes on humanity in the African region.
The UN Security Council "rejected an African demand to suspend the International Criminal Court crimes against humanity trials of Kenya's top two leaders."
