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CAR: Key Step Toward Justice Get New Special Criminal Court Up and Running

April 25, 2015 Global Author

(Bangui, April 24, 2015) – The Central African Republic's National Transitional Council has taken decisive action for justice for the victims of atrocities by adopting a law to establish a Special Criminal Court within the national justice system, 23 Central African and international human rights organizations said today. The draft law, which the government sent to the transitional parliament on... Read More

Democratic Republic Congo Must Guarantee ‘Space’ for Opposition Ahead of Vote: UN

April 21, 2015 Global Authorcongo, DRC, Elections. UN, Kabila, Kobler, military, MONUSCO

KINSHASA: The United Nations on Sunday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to respect its citizens’ civil liberties as the political climate has turned tense ahead of key elections next year. “Political space must be guaranteed, space for the opposition, space for civil society, for the defenders of human rights,” Martin Kobler, head of the UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO in… Read More

Australian troops remember Kibeho massacre in Rwanda

April 21, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergAustralia, Genocide, Kagame, Kibeho Massacre, RPF, Rwanda, violence, War Crimes

“The killing just went on and on right in front of us. None were spared, not even the babies on their mother’s backs.” It’s been 20 years since Terry Pickard witnessed the Kibeho massacre in Rwanda. It is, to this day, something that affects his life. “At least twice a week I have nightmares which wake me up,” he writes… Read More

How Has President Paul Kagame Performed Economically Since 2000?

April 20, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Author3rd term, David Himbara, Election, foreign aid, Kagame, Obama, Rwanda, World Development Bank

By: Dr. David Himbara The one-sided debate inside Rwanda that calls for 3rd presidential term for Kagame pushes the line that he is a rare and economic miracle performer. But hold on. Take look at this data from the just published 2015 World Development Indicators by the World Bank. We can use the indicators to make evidence-based judgment on what… Read More

Kagame isn’t the right person to lecture about tolerance, democracy and dialogue

April 20, 2015October 20, 2016 Global Authorafrica, freedom, Genocide, human rights, kigali, Media, military, Paul Kagame, Rwanda

By Nelson Gatsimbazi In a recent meeting called Tana High Level Forum (THLF) on security in African, which took place on 18th April 2015 in Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia, where Rwandan President Paul Kagame was among the speakers. His speech left many questions when he began lecturing the world about things beyond his ability of governance. In his… Read More

Stop ignoring massacres in Africa

April 7, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergCNN, DRC, Fox News, Garissa University, Kagame, kenya, Massacres, MSNBC, Museveni, Obama, Terrorism, Uganda, War on Terror

By: Jennifer Fierberg We live in a world filled with terrorist attacks. So much so that they become the noise of the nightly news that most Westerners ignore. Simply watching the nightly news or scanning social media for a few minutes will typically reveal the horrors of terrorism in all corners of the world. However, why do some attacks garner… Read More

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

March 25, 2015March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergBrian Endless, economy, Education, Emmanuel Hakizimana, Paul Kagame, propaganda, Reconciliation, RPF, Rwanda

By: Jennifer Fierberg Rwanda is often touted as a “financial success story” in many publications yet the smoke screen of propaganda quickly dissipates when the reality of facts and statistics confront the mirage. While there certainly are development successes in the country since the war in 1994 the cover up of the financial challenges are much deeper in number. In… Read More

Will Rwandans allow Kagame to Circumvent Democracy….again

March 25, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer Fierberg3rd term, Charles Kambanda, democracy, elections, Hitler, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandans

ON RWANDA’S PRESIDENTIAL TERMS LIMIT IN THE 2003 RWANDAN CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED: There is no legal instrument or methods to circumvent the terms limit save for a coup which would suspend or abrogate the Rwandan Constitution in its entirety. A systematic move to drop presidential terms limit, to allow the incumbent to run for the same office after his two… Read More

International Community on alert for Paul Kagame’s brutality

March 25, 2015October 20, 2016 Global AuthorCanada, David Himbara, Emmanuel Hakaizimana, murder, Paul Kagame, Robin Philpot, Rwanda, Terrorism

Press release Montréal, March 22, 2015 The Rwanda National Congress-RNC demands that the Canadian government expel members of the Rwandan Commondo or bring them before the Canadian justice system The Rwanda National Congress informed the minister of public security of Canada and the media of the presence of a Rwandan commando whose objective is to kill, injure, or intimidate several… Read More

Who Is Afraid Of The Rwanda Regime?

March 19, 2015March 25, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergactivists, David Himbara, dictators, Fear, kigali, London, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwanda House

By: David Himbara The building which houses the Rwandan High Commission in London belongs to president Paul Kagame. The Rwandan government rents it from him. This is one of the case studies of good governance that Rwanda should be praised for: centralisation of assets and revenues in one place. Contrary to what some would think, this is not a case… Read More

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