ICC to sentence Congo warlord Lubanga on July 10By | Friday, June 29  2012 at  17:19

Former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga awaiting the verdict on his war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court in the Hague on March 14, 2012. He was found guilty of conscripting and enlisting children. AFP | AFRICA REVIEW 

Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, convicted of using child soldiers in his rebel army, will be sentenced on July 10, the International Criminal Court said Friday.

Lubanga, 51, was convicted in March of war crimes for using child soldiers in a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-03, in the ICC's first verdict since it started work a decade ago.

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