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Rwanda: Kabuga's Arrest Highlights Improved France-Rwanda Relations
The arrest of the most wanted genocide suspect of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Félicien Kabuga, 84, in a Paris apartment last week, highlights renewed French commitment to improve relations with Rwanda, long injured by allegations against each other on the
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Uganda: Teenager Fighting for Children and Girls' Rights
But Anitah Prossy Namuwoya is already following her passion of fighting for children and
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Ethiopia: Commentary - the 2015 Declaration of Principles Is Not a Treaty and Ethiopia Does Not Have Obligations Therefrom
The Normative Status of the 2015 Agreement on the Declaration of Principles
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Battle, Anthony Michael (1950– )
Michael Battle is an educator, religious leader, and diplomat. Born on July 28, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri, he was one of twelve children from Jessie Battle Sr., a Pentecostal pastor, and Mary Battle.  Michael received his bachelor’s degree from Trinity College (1973), his Master of Divinity
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1950
Rwanda: RDB Gets Four New Board Members
A cabinet meeting held virtually on Monday, May 18, and chaired by President Paul Kagame, appointed four new members on the Board of Directors of Rwanda Development Board
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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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Africa: Telling the Story From Both Sides
It offers a set of plans, evaluation criteria and practical options to media professionals that can be used to develop critical analysis of war journalism, all derived from, or at least attentive to, proposals on conflict, violence and
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Rwanda: Govt Unveils U.S.$11 Billion Climate Action Plan
Rwanda has become the first African country to submit a new national climate plan, whose implementation requires $11 billion (10.2 trillion), as an essential tool to implement the Paris
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Andrew Young born
Andrew Young, former US United Nations ambassador, former congressman and former mayor of Atlanta, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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1932
Africa: Minister Blade Nzimande Calls for African Solutions to COVID-19 During Africa Day
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, assured Africa's scientific community that just as the continent had defeated colonial and racial oppression, so too would it overcome the novel
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The Best and Worst of African Conflict War Movies
The many conflicts, war, and rebellions that have occurred in Africa are sort of forgotten by most of the world.  Everyone knows Vietnam and World War II, but ask about a war that occurred in Africa and most people might simply be able to name the Sudan, without really knowing what the war was
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Jones, William B. (1928- )
On July 26, 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated William B. Jones as the United States Ambassador to Haiti. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jones and soon after he took up his post in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Born on May 2, 1928, to Bill and LaVelle Jones in Los Angeles, California, Ambassador Jones grew
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Burundi: A Perfect Storm Is Brewing in Burundi
While most of the world tries to slow the spread and limit the death toll of Covid-19, Burundi is expelling health
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Africa Day and Its Discontent
Founded in 1963, the aim of the Organization of Africa Unity, the precursor of Africa Union (AU) was to safeguard the interests and independence of all African states, encourage the continent's development, and settle disputes among member
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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System
In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama
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Keyes, Alan L. (1950- )
A controversial and conservative Republican, Alan Lee Keyes has perhaps one of the most extensive resumes to date in public and political
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Rwanda: Opinion - Rwandan Genocide Arrest Offers Solace to Survivors
Felicien Kabuga, a Rwandan fugitive who allegedly planned, financed, and executed one of the worst genocides in recent history, has been
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Rwanda: We'll Get You All - UN Prosecutor Tells Genocide Suspects Still At Large
Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT), has told The New Times that his team of investigators has good leads and continues to tirelessly hunt for seven other Rwandan Genocide fugitives indicted by the UN court years ago
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Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, is born
Henry Ransom Cecil McBay, chemist, Born May 29, 1914 in Mexia, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science from Wiley College in 1934 and a Master of Science from Atlanta University in 1936. Henry McBay earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1945. McBay served as an Instructor
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May
29
1914
Why Are There Two Congos in Africa?
The larger of the two Congos is the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa (Kinshasa is the capital and largest city). The DRC was formerly known as Zaire and earlier known as the Belgian Congo. The smaller of the two Congos, on the western edge of the DRC, is the Republic of the Congo, or
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Rwanda's Most Wanted Genocide Fugitive Arrested in France
Rwanda genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was on Saturday arrested in Paris region, the French justice ministry and the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
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Africa: Beyond the Narratives of Africa's Doom and Gloom
Africa has recorded successes on many levels which are often ignored by global media -- and we need to embrace and celebrate our unique contribution to the
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School leaders offered training to manage institutions remotely
STARTING June 1, school leaders across Jamaica will participate in a virtual instructional leadership (VIL) online course, which will equip them with the skills and competencies to effectively manage institutions
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A. Philip Randolph Institute (1965- )
The A. Philip Randolph Institute was founded by and named for labor leader Asa Philip Randolph, who was the longtime president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. Randolph and his friend and fellow activist Bayard Rustin founded APRI in 1965 after their successful 1963 March on
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(1948) Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights”
By 1947 the question of black civil rights in the South had become a national issue when a committee President Harry S. Truman appointed to study the issue called for legislation which among other things would to protect voting rights for Southern blacks and provide federal protection against
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Africa: What Kabuga's Arrest Means for International Criminal Justice - and Rwanda
Second, his arrest revisits the contested success of transitional justice in Rwanda, and showcases the mixed record of international justice more
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Thomas-Greenfield, Linda (1952- )
Born in Baker, Louisiana circa 1952, Linda Thomas-Greenfield graduated from a segregated high school in 1970. The first in her family to graduate from high school, Thomas-Greenfield saw the local Peace Corps training center, which trained volunteers for work in Somalia and Swaziland, as influencing
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Aug
6
2013
Zim poet appointed Unesco affiliate
INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED poet and writer, Mbizo Chirasha has received a major boost in his artistic career after he was accepted as a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)-Rila affiliate artist, joining an esteemed team of other international creatives on
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Rwandan Felicien Kabuga Calls Genocide Charges 'Lies'
After decades on the run, Felicien Kabuga called the charges against him "lies" and his lawyer doubted he would receive a fair trial in an international
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