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The prosecutor of the world’s only permanent war crimes court warned late Friday she was ready to act if wide-scale abuses were committed in Burundi, which has been rocked by months of political unrest.

Central African Republic leader Catherine Samba-Panza says she will "go to war" with Christian militias who are slaughtering Muslims.

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>Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has met with the African Union Commission of Inquiry investigating war crimes in the South Sudan conflict.

The International Criminal Court on Friday cut a 12-year prison term imposed on a Congolese militia leader for a brutal village attack, saying he would be freed in January after voicing regret.

A UN report suggests both sides in the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) have committed war crimes, but says talk of ethnic cleansing is premature.

The African Union says a a special court will be set up to try war crimes suspects in South Sudan, which has been hit by a brutal conflict since 2013.

The war crimes trial in the DR Congo of a senior ex-army officer will be a test of military justice in the country, the UN says.

Ex-militia leader Germain Katanga was sentenced to a 12-year jail term Friday morning for aiding and abbeting the mass murder of hundreds of Congolese villagers.