ICC to deliver verdict on Ongwen’s reparations appeal on April 7

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The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will on April 7, 2025, deliver its judgement on former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Commander Dominic Ongwen’s appeal against the reparations order.

The ICC Trial Chamber IX on February 28, 2024, set the financial liability of Ongwen to €52.429m (about sh207.2b) and ordered collective community-based reparations.

These are focused on rehabilitation and symbolic measures, consisting of collective rehabilitation programmes, as well as a symbolic award of €750 (about sh2.9m) for all eligible victims, and other community symbolic measures.

According to the March 25, 2025, court order scheduling the hearing, the judgment shall be delivered at 14:30 Hague Local Time (4:30pm) by Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa, Presiding Judge, Judge Tomoko Akane, Judge Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, Judge Gocha Lordkipanidze and Judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin.

The hearing that shall be in Courtroom 1 can be followed live on the ICC website in English, French and Acholi languages, according to the court order.

Ongwen, who was convicted on February 4, 2021, of 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Northern Uganda between July 1, 2002, and December 31, 2005, is currently serving his 25–year jail term in Norway.

He was transferred there from The Hague in the Netherlands on December 18, 2023.