Antoine Tombet calls for ICC warrant against Noureddine Adam to be enforced
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Corbeau News Centrafrique
Antoine Tombet, president of the Victims’ Collective for Justice in Central African Republic, is calling for the enforcement of the ICC arrest warrant against Noureddine Adam for crimes committed in 2013. He recalled that the warrant was issued on 7 January 2019 and made public on 28 July 2022, according to his 5 November statement.
The president of the Victims’ Collective for Justice, Antoine Tombet, on Thursday 5 November 2026 called for the enforcement of the international arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Noureddine Adam, who is wanted for crimes committed in the Central African Republic in 2013. In a statement published that day, he directly addressed President Faustin-Archange Touadéra and his government, according to Corbeau News Centrafrique.
The warrant against Noureddine Adam was issued by the ICC on 7 January 2019, before being made public on 28 July 2022. More than seven years after it was issued, it remains unenforced, Antoine Tombet recalled, himself a survivor of CEDAD, a detention centre associated with the violence of 2013. “Thirteen years after these events, victims are still waiting for justice to be served,” he said.
Antoine Tombet called on the Central African government to publicly reaffirm its willingness to cooperate with the ICC and to deploy the judicial, police and diplomatic resources necessary to arrest Noureddine Adam. “The Central African state cannot limit itself to proclaiming its commitment to justice and the fight against impunity. It must translate this commitment into verifiable action,” he said.
The statement comes one month after the ICC held a hearing in Bangui on reparations in the Yekatom-Ngaïssona case, attended by more than 300 people on 4 October 2026, and a few days after the UJCA, the Union of Central African Journalists warned of threats facing the profession.
