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By Nkem Ekeopara International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda: What has Biafra and the death of Thatcher got to do with it? Last week, the hazardous situation in North Korea and the death of the former British … read more »
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Tagged CHINUA ACHEBE, genocide, Hutu, Kofi Annan, Margaret Thatcher, Nigeria, Nigerian, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide
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By Simon Kent ,Toronto Sun TORONTO - It didn’t have to end in utter shame for the United Nations, but then old habits die hard – if you’ll pardon the pun. Exactly 19 years ago members of the rival Hutu and Tutsi … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Pan African News, Rwanda
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Tagged Hutu, Khmer Rouge, Kofi Annan, Mozambique, Rwanda, Stephen Harper, Tutsi, United Nations
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Last Sunday, President Barack Obama marked the 19th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. The President stated that the United States, “grieves with the Rwandan people” who survived the killings. “Nineteen years ago, Rwanda was torn apart by a great … read more »
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Tagged Barack Obama, genocide, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi, United Nations, United States
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Beginning on April 6, 1994, Hutus began slaughtering the Tutsis in the African country of Rwanda. As the brutal killings continued, the world stood idly by and just watched the slaughter. Lasting 100 days, the Rwanda genocide left approximately 800,000 … read more »
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Tagged Arusha Accords, Belgium, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tanzania, Tutsi
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—By Gavin Aronsen Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), who enjoys an A rating from the National Rifle Association, took to Facebook on Thursday to warn Americans of the “evil consequences” of a national gun registry, comparing the dangers of expanded background … read more »
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Tagged Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Joe Manchin, National Rifle Association, Nicole Brown Simpson, Pat Toomey, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi
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Nearly three years ago, international student Claudine Kuradusenge moved to Utah from Belgium and enrolled at Utah Valley University. She was just six years old when she moved from her home country of Rwanda to Belgium, only a few months … read more »
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Tagged George Mason University, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Kigali International Airport, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi, Utah Valley University
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Beatrice Munyenyezi had been given asylum but now faces up to 10 years in prison and deportation for making false statements. A Rwandan woman who won political asylum in the US after hiding her family’s role in the 1994 genocide … read more »
KIGALI — Rwandan ex-politician Leon Mugesera, who is on trial for incitement to genocide, on Tuesday questioned the authenticity of a recording in which he allegedly described Tutsis as “cockroaches”. The audio, which is the prosecution’s only evidence against him, … read more »
By Kris Berwouts The civil war in Burundi now lies several years behind us. Since November 2003, when the CNDD-FDD integrated the transitional institutions, the rebels and the regular armed forces integrated their troops into a new national army. The … read more »
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Tagged Arusha, Arusha Agreement, Burundi, Bururi, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Lake Tanganyika, Rumonge, Tanzania
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Why the celebrated Rwandan president really deserves an indictment. When Rwandan-backed rebels recently took Goma, the biggest city in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Paul Kagame had every reason to think the world would give … read more »
- Victorie Ingabire returned to Rwanda in 2010 in order to register her party and run for the Presidential seat against Paul Kagame. She stepped off of the plane went to a genocide memorial site where she spoke to supporters … read more »
Economist VICTOIRE INGABIRE returned to her native country in 2010 to compete in presidential elections after 16 years in exile in the Netherlands. She became the leader of an opposition party, United Democratic Forces, challenging the incumbent, President Paul Kagame. … read more »
(UPI) — Human Rights Watch said it had concerns that charges filed against an opposition leader in Rwanda were politically motivated. The High Court in Kigali this week found Victoire Ingabire, leader of the opposition FDU-Inkingi party, guilty of ties … read more »
KIGALI — Rwanda’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a suit filed by a leading opposition figure challenging one of the laws being used to prosecute her for allegedly denying the 1994 genocide. Victoire Ingabire, who has been in custody for … read more »
UNITED NATIONS—The UN General Assembly elected Rwanda, Argentina and Australia to the 15-national Security Council on Thursday for 2013 and 2014. Rwanda and Argentina were unopposed in their bids for the Africa seat and the Latin American and Caribbean seat, … read more »
Muganwa is known to espouse radical anti Kagame views and has refused to go into exile unlike most opposition politicians who have preferred to flee rather than languish in prison without hope of release. Andrew Muganwa photo: inyenyerinews.org (WASHINGTON DC) … read more »
Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused of fresh atrocities, including the execution of recruits trying to escape rebel ranks. A spokesperson for Human Right Watch told the BBC that one woman had been gang-raped by M23 … read more »
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Tagged bbc, Bosco Ntaganda, Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Rwanda, Tutsi
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Norway has set September 25 as the beginning of a trial involving Genocide suspect Sadi Bugingo who was arrested in Oslo last year, according to information from the Nordic country. Bugingo allegedly killed people at the Economat Général of Kibungo … read more »
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Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, Democratic Republic Congo, genocide, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Norway, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi
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Cristopher C.BLACK, Alexander MEZYAEV On 17th August 2012 counsel (1) for several Rwandan and Congolese (DRC) political and civil organizations, (2) delivered a complaint to the Prosecutor of the ICC concerning crimes allegedly committed by the current President of Rwanda … read more »
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Tagged Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Kagame, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Patriotic Front
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By Richard Dowden Questioned last week on the BBC’s Hardtalk about the connection between Rwanda and the M23 rebel movement in eastern Congo, President Paul Kagame denied all involvement. He said: “We are not connected at all with the cause … read more »
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New York – Human Rights Watch criticised Rwanda’s virtual guarantee of a seat on the UN Security Council next year, saying on Monday it shouldn’t be on the UN’s most powerful body when it is protecting a Congolese ex-warlord indicted … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, African Union, Bosco Ntaganda, Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Rwanda, United Nations
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The African territory which includes Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been in virtually a state of war since 1995; that is at war with each other. This has engaged the national armies, militias, ‘civil defence’ … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Rwanda, Tutsi, Uganda, Ugandan, Yoweri Museveni
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Apathy, self centeredness, haughtiness, self-importance, self-possession, swells headedness, self-glorification, and lack of passion for human suffering is what the writer observed in most of the politicians in Ghana. This kind of attitude and behavior of some Ghanaian politicians envelope my … read more »
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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has for the first time transferred a genocide suspect back to the central African country to face trial. Genocide suspect Jean Uwinkindi arrived in Kigali late Thursday from Arushu, Tanzania, where the U.N. tribunal … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Arguin, Hutu, ICTR, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, KIGALI, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tanzania, Tutsi
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Washington – US President Barack Obama on Friday remembered the killings of 800 000 people in Rwanda, marking the 18th anniversary of the genocide by vowing to ensure such evil cannot triumph again. “The spectre of this slaughter of mothers, … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Barack Obama, Canada, Friday, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi, United States
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On this day in 1994 what is considered the worst example of genocide since the Second World War began with the deaths of 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers at the hands of Rwandan forces. Their murders by Hutu members of the … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Roméo Dallaire, Rwanda, Shake Hands With The Devil, Tutsi, Uganda, United Nations, World War II
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hat Press Conference on the 18th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda leading up to the observance of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. Who Ms. Yamina Karitanyi, Charge d’Affaires a.i. Rwanda High Commission and … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Hutu, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, KIGALI, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi, United Nations
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In sentencing PDP party president Deogratias Mushayidi to life in prison, the Rwandan Supreme Court’s controversial verdict puts an end to the political career of one of Rwanda’s most important Tutsi opposition leaders and a vocal critic of Kagame’s government. … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, Hutu, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kagame, Paul Kagame, RPF, Rwanda, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Tutsi
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Kigali – A Rwandan sought by the authorities in Kigali over the 1994 genocide and deported by Canada after a long legal battle, was charged on Thursday with plotting genocide, incitement and distribution of arms. Leon Mugesera, who had been … read more »
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Tagged Canada, Hutu, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, KIGALI, Léon Mugesera, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi
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Police in Rwanda say they have arrested two suspects in connection with a grenade blast that wounded at least 10 people in the southern part of the central African country. The blast happened late Tuesday near a public transportation facility … read more »
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Tagged Grenade, Hutu, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, KIGALI, Officer (armed forces), Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Tutsi
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