{"id":235878,"date":"2026-06-10T05:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-war-crimes-case-lands-in-kenya-under-universal-jurisdiction-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:31:21","slug":"sudan-rsf-war-crimes-case-lands-in-kenya-under-universal-jurisdiction-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-war-crimes-case-lands-in-kenya-under-universal-jurisdiction-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan RSF War Crimes Case Lands in Kenya Under Universal Jurisdiction Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>A criminal complaint has been filed in Nairobi seeking the prosecution of members of Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The complaint, submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), marks the first known attempt in the country&#8217;s history to invoke universal jurisdiction in pursuit of accountability for atrocities allegedly committed outside Kenya&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Filed on behalf of twelve Sudanese victims by Legal Action Worldwide&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606090549.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 A criminal complaint has been filed in Nairobi seeking the prosecution of members of Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. The complaint, submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), marks the first known attempt in the country&#8217;s history to invoke universal jurisdiction in pursuit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":235879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00440859:7d564e6770974cf8b00ca26bd1702bd9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,10798,6683,1922,12333,4688,10639,257,2830,254,4708,1613,12369,6618],"class_list":["post-235878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-case","tag-crimes","tag-jurisdiction","tag-kenya","tag-lands","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-universal","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00440859:7d564e6770974cf8b00ca26bd1702bd9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}