NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States wants Kenya to hand over a Rwanda genocide suspect it believes the east African nation has been harboring for years, President Barack Obama's war crimes envoy said on Monday.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will pursue those "most responsible" for violent crimes allegedly committed after 2007 elections in Kenya, his office said Wednesday.

Kenya's unity government must do more to implement reforms and avoid a resurgence of last year's post-election violence, former UN chief Kofi Annan, the mediator in the crisis, said Sunday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's coalition government rejected on Monday international donors' accusations it was not doing enough to tackle the root causes of last year's post- election violence and bring to account those behind the killing.

UN rights body refers Gaza war crimes report to Security Council for possible prosecution. The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report and send it to the Security Council, possibly setting up international prosecution of Israelis and Palestinians accused of war crimes.

Darfur rebel chief Bahar Idriss Abu Garda is confident he will not face trial on war crime charges over an attack that left 12 African peacekeepers dead in the Sudanese region, his lawyer said on Friday.

Darfur rebel chief Bahar Idriss Abu Garda is confident he will not face trial on war crimes charges over an attack that killed 12 African peacekeepers in the Sudanese region, his lawyer said on Friday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's attorney general Amos Wako was the senior government official handed a travel ban by Washington last month, the U.S. envoy to Kenya said on Sunday.

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor arrived in Kenya Thursday for talks on trying those behind last year's post-poll violence which claimed some 1,500 lives.

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday he would ask the court's judges in December to order a probe into Kenya's post-poll violence which claimed some 1,500 lives.

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday he would ask the court's judges in December to order a probe into Kenya's post-poll violence which claimed some 1,500 lives.

Kenya: ICC prosecutor says he will ask court to open investigation into postelection violence. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Thursday that Kenya's postelection violence that killed more than 1,000 people was a crime against humanity and pledged to initiate proceedings that could result in top officials facing trial.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Friday it had assigned three judges to consider a prosecution request for an inquiry into Kenya's post-poll violence which claimed about 1,500 lives.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor will request that an investigation be opened into suspected crimes against humanity committed during Kenya's post-election violence in 2008.

Top war crimes prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Saturday he has a strong case against the masterminds behind last year's post-election violence in Kenya.

Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula said Monday that Nairobi will help the International Criminal Court to probe election violence, but that it was committed to a "local solution."

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court on Friday ordered the conditional release of Congolese rebel warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba pending trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bemba is accused of leading rebels from the Democratic Republic of Congo in a campaign of torture, rape and murder in the neighboring Central African Republic. Bemba, who was arrested in Belgium in May 2008, denies all the charges.

Democratic Republic of Congo ex-vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba is a flight risk and may harm witnesses in his war crimes trial, prosecutors said Tuesday in appealing against his ordered release.

A 15-year-old Palestinian girl who says Israeli troops killed her father and two siblings in Gaza in January, sought justice from the International Criminal Court on Monday.

Shots were fired on the home of the Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister and a cabinet colleague amid warnings not to testify in the war crimes trial of former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, they said Monday.