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Burkina Faso: Ex-soldier admits role in murder of Thomas Sankara

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– – A former soldier has admitted his role in events leading to the death of former leader of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, 34 years ago. Yamba Elise Ilboudo, 62 is currently on trial, charged with complicity in endangering state security. The ongoing trial at a military court in Ouagadougou is hoping to bring closure to the assassination of Sankara,… Read More

RNC Pleased With the outcome of Gen Kayumba’s Case

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Jean Paul Turayishimiye RNC spokes person Rwanda National Congress is pleased with the ruling on the 2010 attempted murder case, against the life of General Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa. Though Pascal Kanyandekwe, and Richard, two Rwandans accused in the conspiracy of the plot were freed because of the insufficiency of evidence to convict them, it has left no doubt… Read More

Congo militia leader ordered rapes, massacres: prosecutor

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Defense Counsel Marc Desalliers (R) and Caroline Buteau look on during the case against Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, February 10, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/TOUSSAINT KLUITERS/UNITED PHOTOS/POOL (Reuters) – A Congolese militia leader widely known as “the Terminator” led fighters, including child soldiers, in a campaign of ethnically-motivated rape and murder, the International… Read More

Exiled Rwandan says Kagame hunted him and others

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A prominent Rwandan exile accuses the president of being a dictator, imprisoning political opponents and destabilizing East Africa, adding in an interview Thursday that he believes the leader, who he once served, has hunted him and other dissidents around the world. Kayumba Nyamwasa, once Rwandan President Paul Kagame's army chief, spoke to The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Thursday... Read More

Rwandan Opposition Members continue to be under attack

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By Jennifer Fierberg, MSW In a press release by the FDU-INKINGI party on Monday March 12, 2012 they had the following to state about the ongoing trial of Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza: RWANDA: INGABIRE POLITICAL TRIAL RESUMES. THE HIGH COURT SUSPENDS DEBATES ON GENOCIDE ALLEGATIONS UNTIL CONSTITUTIONALITY RULING. MARCH 12, 2012 Kigali, 12 March 2012 On 12 March 2012, the… Read More

A New Hope, Victoire Ingabire

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Rwandan opposition politician, Victoire Ingabire, wins a partial victory in the first round in her fight against the country’s laws governing genocide ideology. High Court judges in Rwanda have partially suspended the trial of opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza until the country’s Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the genocide ideology laws she is challenging–laws that allow for the… Read More