By AFPMore by this AuthorBANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC,Central African Republic (CAR) lawmaker and former militia leader Alfred Yekatom was extradited to The Hague Saturday to stand trial in the International Criminal Court probing war crimes and crimes against humanity, a government source said. The source said the charges against Mr Yekatom, a former militia leader of a faction of the anti-balaka movement involved in sectarian bloodletting, were not specified. FIRST EXTRADITIONIt was the first extradition from CAR to the court. The ICC launched an investigation in September 2014 into crimes committed in the country since 2012. He was arrested in October for opening fire inside the legislature when the new president of parliament was being elected.

Source: Daily Nation November 17, 2018 18:11 UTC