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Tanzania: Arusha It Is for Kabuga, Judge Rules
Aruling that the trial of Félicien Kabuga, the alleged top financier of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, will be held at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in Arusha, Tanzania, has broken the hearts of survivors who wanted him tried in Rwanda where he is said to
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Rwanda: What Civil Society, Genocide Survivors Think of Kabuga's Arrest
After 26 years on the run, on May 16, French authorities revealed that genocide architect Felicien Kabuga had been arrested in
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Somalia: New Report Accuses Envoy of Running Down Amisom
The head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) is fighting off allegations of corruption, mismanagement, harassment and political
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UK vaccine summit calls for freely available virus vaccine | The Atlanta Voice
A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might be distributed globally — and
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Africa: Cybercrime and COVID-19 – A Concern for Financial Stability During the Pandemic
Cybercrime has long posed a significant risk for financial stability in African countries given limited capacity and attention to managing cyber
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The Colonial Names of African States
After decolonization, state boundaries in Africa remained remarkably stable, but the colonial names of African states often changed. Explore a list of current African countries according to their former colonial names, with explanations of border changes and amalgamations of
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Rwanda: Upgrade Works On Kiziguro Genocide Memorial Site Start
Works to upgrade Gatsibo District's genocide memorial site in Kiziguro are underway, a project that will be carried out in two fiscal years, costing Rwf380
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Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American female state legislators in the United States, was born on June 27, 1894 in Princess Anne, Maryland. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts but spent most of her adult and political life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between 1914 and 1918 Fauset worked
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Kabuga denounces charges as 'lies'
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested this month after more than two decades on the run, told a French court on Wednesday that the international charges against him were
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Tanzania Reopens Colleges, Sports Activities As COVID-19 Numbers Drop
Dar es Salaam — University students will return to their respective colleges on June 1, 2020 as the number of Covid-19 cases drops in Tanzania, President John Magufuli announced on Thursday, 21 May
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Somalia: Govt Starts Aerial Spraying to Stop Desert Locust Invasion
Young desert locusts that have not yet grown wings jump in the air as they are approached, as a visiting delegation from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) observes them, in the desert near Garowe, in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of
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Rwanda: French Court Rejects Kabuga's Appeal for Bail
A court in Paris, France, on Wednesday, May 27, rejected the request by lawyers' of Genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga to release him on bail as the initial judicial process continues in
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School leaders to receive training to manage institutions remotely
(JIS): School leaders across Jamaica are to participate in a Virtual Instructional Leadership (VIL) online course to equip them with the skills and competencies to effectively manage institutions
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(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s Navy yesterday broke up three human trafficking camps on the country’s Orinoco Delta and rescued 79 people, including 25 minors, whom they said were being trafficked to criminal gangs in
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Rwanda: Ladislas Ntaganzwa Gets Life Sentence for Genocide Crimes
The High Court Chamber for International Crimes in Nyanza on Thursday, May 28, 2020, sentenced Ladislas Ntaganzwa to life in prison for Genocide crimes he committed during the 1994 genocide against the
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US hails Kabuga arrest
The United States on Monday hailed the arrest in France of a key fugitive in the Rwandan genocide as a milestone and pledged to help find others at
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Rwanda: After Kabuga's Arrest in Paris, How Many Rwanda Genocide Suspects Remain?
The arrest of Félicien Kabuga, one of the alleged financiers of the Rwandan genocide, has been welcomed by victims and survivors organisations that have pushed for justice for the 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus who were killed in
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With the novel coronavirus still in pandemic mode, the African continent has seen a continued growth in the total tally, while Italy, an earlier epicentre of the pandemic in Europe, has begun to partially lift travel bans as its new infections are
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GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) — Several health organisations are warning that children under the age of one in the Caribbean are at risk of contracting diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio because the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting life-saving immunisation
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Kabuga likely to be tried in Tanzania
Felicien Kabuga, 84, one of the last key fugitives wanted over the genocide, was arrested at his home outside Paris on Saturday after living for years under a false
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Al-Shabab formally declared allegiance to al-Qaeda in February 2010, sparking further concern that the group posed a global threat. It claimed responsibility for the July bombing at a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, that killed about 75 people who were watching the final game of the World Cup. The
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Fugitive Félicien Kabuga arrested
Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the public prosecutor's office and police said in a joint
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Queries raised over Kabuga's Kenya link
For many years believed to have been hiding in Kenya, Kabuga, born in 1935 in Muniga, Rwanda, is said to have been one of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi, in which more than a million people were
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Rwanda: Kabuga Arrest Puts UK's Attitude Back in the Spotlight
Andrew Mitchell, a British Conservative Party politician and former secretary of state for international development, is among the voices now again urging legal authorities in his country to act on five genocide perpetrators living in the UK, "not in hiding but in plain
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Rwandan Genocide Fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, Arrested After 25 Years On the Run
French police arrested one of the last key suspects sought over the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, prosecutors and police
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Kenya: Kitui Family Recounts How Kin Was Killed By Gunmen Linked to Felicien Kabuga
Mr Benjamin Mbiti Kalili was a telecommunications expert who had been seconded by United Nations to the Arusha based International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda genocide which was trying the genocide suspects to help in tracking Mr
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