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Burkina Faso: Army must free detained leaders and avoid violent repression of protests

September 18, 2015October 21, 2016 Global Authorwest africa

Burkina Faso’s Presidential Guard must stop using lethal force, beatings and other violence to repress protests and release arbitrarily detained members of the transitional government, said Amnesty International amid reports that demonstrators have been beaten and shot following today’s coup. . Read More

Court Denies Leave to Appeal the Erroneous Grant of Refugee Status to an Alleged War Criminal

September 16, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Author

Pretoria- On 14 September 2015, the North Gauteng High Court denied the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) leave to appeal in the case challenging the grant of refugee status to alleged war criminal General Kayumba Nyamwasa. Nyamwasa has been accused of committing war crimes in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo while serving as a general... Read More

Challenging the Grant of Asylum in South Africa to a Rwandan Suspected War Criminal

September 15, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Author

Johannesburg – On Tuesday 15 September 2015, the North Gauteng High Court will hear a leave to appeal application in the case pertaining to the granting of refugee status to Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa who has been implicated in the commission of war crimes, rendering him ineligible for refugee status. . Read More

Nigeria’s Iheanacho bursts onto Premier League stage

September 14, 2015 Global Author

Premier League giants Manchester City were indebted to a late super-sub cameo from Nigerian youngster Kelechi Iheanacho for ensuring their 100% start to the season was maintained at Selhurst Park against a resolute Crystal Palace in the latest round of Premier League fixtures. Having failed to break through a stubborn Palace defence, it was the teenage substitute who latched onto a... Read More

Burundi: Suspects in killing of general arrested

August 10, 2015October 20, 2016 Global AuthorBurundi, Nshimirimana, Pierre Nkurunziza, warcrimes

(File, AP) Bujumbura - Burundi's prosecutor on Sunday said the killers of a powerful general loyal to President Pierre Nkurunziza had been identified and "a certain number" had been arrested. General Adolphe Nshimirimana, widely seen as Burundi's de-facto internal security chief, was killed in a rocket attack on August 2. He was a close aide of president Nkurunziza, whose successful... Read More

Rwandan spy chief extradition case dismissed: UK court

August 10, 2015October 20, 2016 Global AuthorKagame, Karenzi Karake, KK, Rwanda, Rwandan spy chief, Spain, Spanish Courts, UK

. View photo General Karenzi Karake (pictured) was accused of “crimes of terrorism” linked to the killing of nine Spanish citizens in Rwanda in the 1990s (AFP Photo/) London (AFP) – A court in Britain said Monday it had dropped an extradition case against Rwanda’s intelligence chief. General Karenzi Karake was arrested on a warrant issued by Spain in… Read More

Rwanda Supreme Court hearing on Constitutional Change Regarding Lifting of Presidential Term Limits has commenced.

August 4, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Authordemocracy, dictator, Frank habineza, Greens, Kagame, kigali, Rwanda, Rwanda Green Party, Supreme Court

Before the Supreme Court Judges Rwanda’s Supreme Court has today, the 29th of July 2015, started hearing, the petition against the change of the Rwandan Constitution, especially Article 101, regarding lifting of Presidential term limits, filed by the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda. The Court process, started with the acceptance of the Amicus Curiae, filled by the Centre for Human… Read More

Fragile Burundi Casts a Wary Eye on Rwanda

August 4, 2015 Global AuthorBurundi, democracy, FDLR, Flip Reyntjens, Genocide, hutu, Kagame, Rwanda, Tutsi, war

A rally for President Pierre Nkurunziza in Cibitoke, Burundi, near the border with Rwanda. Mr. Nkurunziza’s aides accuse Rwanda of tacitly aiding his enemies.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times KIGALI, Rwanda — Burundi and Rwanda can seem deceptively like conjoined twins. They share a common history, geography and language, and their populations are divided ethnically between Hutu and Tutsi. Both were devastated by some… Read More

Burundi tense amid gunfire after killing of a general

August 4, 2015 Global AuthorBurundi, east africa, Pierre Nkurunziza

Pierre Nkurunziza. (File: AFP) Bujumbura – Gunfire rang out in Burundi’s capital on Sunday night following the killing of a feared military general who was a close ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza. Nkurunziza, who was re-elected last month, said in a televised address that he had ordered the police to find Lieutenant General Adolphe Nshimirimana’s killers within 10 days. There… Read More

BURUNDI SECURITY AGENTS ATTACK JOURNALIST COVERING MURDER OF TOP GENERAL — CPJ SAYS

August 4, 2015 Global Authorafrica, Burundi, Committee to protect journalists, CPJ Says, Gen. Adolphe Nshimiramana, Kagame, murder, Rwanda, Tom Rhodes

Gen. Adolphe Nshimiramana Burundi security forces detained and beat a journalist on Sunday while he was covering the assassination of a top general in the capital, Bujumbura, according to news reports and the journalist. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack and calls on Burundian authorities to launch a full and efficient investigation. Esdras Ndikumana, a correspondent for Agence… Read More