The former head of the Central African Republic (CAR) football federation, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, has been found guiltyof committing 28 war crimes and crimes against humanity by judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the BBC reports.
He was accused, alongside Alfred Yekatom, of co-ordinating attacks against the country’s Muslim population in 2013-14.
Yekatom was found guilty of 20 charges. The judges gave their verdict after a trial lasting almost four years involving more than 170 witnesses and nearly 20,000 items of evidence.
Ngaïssona was sentenced to 12 years and Yekatom 15 years.
