Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has offered his support for the rapid transfer of Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Also known as “The Terminator”, he surrendered to the United States embassy in Kigali on Monday. Rwanda would help facilitate...
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US Head of state Barack Obama contacted Rwandan President Paul Kagame to end all help for rebels in the conflict-wracked Democratic Republic of Congo, said reporters. The White House gave out the highly worded declaration about the pioneers’ phone call after Washington imposed penalties on two top leaders of the M23 rebel group, claiming they had actually...
United Nations Rwandan children, refugees of the 1994 genocide. THE man widely regarded as the architect of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Théoneste Bagosora, has been sent to Mali to serve his sentence, court sources said yesterday. He was transferred to the conflict ridden country together with three other high profile convicts, namely; Yusuf Munyakazi, who was...
The most high-profile detainee at the United Nations court for Rwanda, Theoneste Bagosora, has been sent to Mali to serve his sentence along with three other prisoners, the court said on Wednesday. Seven other genocide suspects convicted by the court have been sent to Benin, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said in a statement. Bagosora, ruled to have been...
THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) yesterday urged Rwanda to stop fuelling conflict in the east, after a United Nations (UN) report found that Kigali officers had assisted a mutiny there. Kigali hit back yesterday with allegations that Kinshasa had sent its own men to the region to plot “terror attacks” against Rwanda with the FDLR. But DRC spokesman, Lambert Mende,...
KINSHASA – Democratic Republic of Congo warned Wednesday that the presence of Rwandan fighters in an anti-government mutiny could unleash new hostilities between the neighbors. DR Congo Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda said in a letter to the UN Security Council that evidence of Rwandan involvement meant the crisis in the east of his country was “evolving...
