Rebels fighters from the FDLR, or the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, have killed at least 50 civilians since the start of May in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said Wednesday.
Mali has been hit by a coup in the south and rebels in the north. We take a closer look at the civilians caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Youssou N'Dour is Senegal's new culture minister. He is just one of many African artists fighting for change. Finally, we find out how a ban on plastic bags in Rwanda is good for both the environment and employment.
A French court has agreed for the first time to extradite a suspect to Rwanda to answer genocide charges, it was announced on Friday. The court ruling in Rouen came after an arrest warrant was issued for Claude Muhayimana.
The French Foreign Ministry recalled its current ambassador to Rwanda Monday after Kigali "refused" to approve France's choice of new ambassador, Helene Le Gal, who is considered too close to French FM Alain Juppé.
Two Canadian courts on Monday rejected an appeal for a stay of deportation from Leon Mugesera, accused of delivering a speech that helped incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which radical ethnic Hutus killed as many as 800,000 Tutsis.
A French probe says Rwandan President Paul Kagame was not behind the assassination that triggered the 1994 genocide. The shot that downed then-president Habyarimana's plane apparently came from his own side. In Nigeria, a strike over rising fuel prices paralyses the country, already reeling from religious violence. And a tourist miraculously survives after her bungee cord snaps in Zimbabwe.
As a new probe reverses an earlier French investigation on the event that sparked the Rwandan genocide and shifts the focus from Tutsi rebels to Hutu extremists, François Picard’s panel argues over whether in the past, there’s been a cover-up.
As a new probe reverses an earlier French investigation on the event that sparked the Rwandan genocide, shifting the focus from Tutsi rebels to Hutu extremists, François Picard’s panel argues over whether, in the past, there has been a cover-up.
A new French inquiry into the assassination of former Rwandan President Habyarimana, which triggered the Rwandan genocide in 1994, could improve relations between France and Rwanda. President Kagame is no longer thought to have orchestrated the assassination, as was previously determined by a heavily-criticised probe conducted by France several years ago, and which led to Rwanda breaking off diplomatic relations.
The change in course of a French investigation into the killing of former Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994 could clear Rwanda's current leaders of any responsibility and help thaw frosty relations between Paris and Kigali.
