Month: October 2020

AFP

1 October 2020 by AFP

Nobel-winner Mukwege calls for justice in DR Congo bloodshed Nobel Peace laureate Denis Mukwege was expected to join protests on Thursday demanding justice for decades of rapes and killings in the east of his native DR Congo. The gynaecologist and surgeon received death threats earlier this [...]

Rwanda

1 October 2020 by Janet H. Anderson

Kabuga’s transfer to the Mechanism: Is it the right thing to do? The surprise arrest in May of an old Rwandan man, soon after the end of lockdown in a chic Paris suburb, is having knock-on consequences. High-profile fugitive Félicien Kabuga has changed overnight the prospects of the “Mechanism” [...]

1 October 2020 by André Guichaoua

Rwanda: what’s at stake in the Kabuga trial What are the consequences of the arrest last May in France of Félicien Kabuga, considered to be one of the main perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide? French sociologist André Guichaoua, a former expert witness for the prosecu [...]