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UDPS Accuses MONUSCO of Siding with Joseph Kabila

January 6, 2012

The November 28, 2011 controversial elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were expected to draw international attention. When the international observers and community pointed out severe irregularities and frauds that could invalidate the results, the attention was heightened (see), especially when the elections results were rejected or criticized by Carter Center, Cardinal [...]

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US Lawyers Object to Suggestion of Immunity Filed by US State Department for General Paul Kagame

September 13, 2011

On September 12, 2011, american attorneys John P. Zelbst, Prof Peter Erlinder, and Kurt P. Kerns representing the plaintiffs Mrs Agathes Habyarimana, the widow of the assassinated Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Mrs Ntaryamira, the widow of the assassinated Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira filed an Objection against the claim of immunity from prosecution by United [...]

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General Paul Kagame’s Aides Refused Visas for the Visit to France

September 2, 2011

Sources close to the French and Spanish judiciary and the Rwandan Embassy in New York have informed AfroAmerica Network that some of the Rwandan President’s closest aides set to accompany the President during his official trip to France planned for September 13, 2011 have been barred from entering France or were refused visa. Most of [...]

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Rwandan Government Response to UN Human Rights Council Fails to Convince

June 6, 2011

Rwandan Response to UN Human Rights Council on Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Fails to Dispel Accusations of  Human Rights Abuses In January 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council, through the Universal Periodic  Review  (UPR) Working Group issued a Human rights report on Rwanda. The report identified several areas of human rights abuses by the [...]

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Rwandan Troops Attack CNDP Offshoot Linked to General Kayumba Nyamwasa

April 2, 2011

Sources in Goma inform AfroAmerica Network that Rwandan troops who have crossed into the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been fighting soldiers of the breakaway group of CNDP in the Territory of Rutshuru. The troops crossed into DRC since early March 2011 (see our March 21, 2011 article – Rwandan Troops Reinforced [...]

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UN Panel of Experts Report on DR Congo: War promoted chaos, increased hardship, looting, and alliance among CNDP, FDLR, RUD-Urunana, Kayumba Nyamwasa, and Patrick Karegeya

November 29, 2010

UN Panel of Experts Report on DR Congo: War promoted chaos, increased hardship, looting,  and alliances among rebellions Monday, November 29, 2010 Picture: General Gabriel Amisi Kumba, akaTango Fort, Second in Command of FARDC accused of enriching himself in the war. In a lengthy report  published on November 29, 2010  with number S/2010/596 (see here) [...]

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Rwandan President General Paul Kagame Cited in Viktor Bout Saga

November 25, 2010

Picture: Victor Bout and Rwandan soldiers The Rwandan Government led by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group that eventually took power in Rwanda in July 1994 after one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th Century has been cited in the criminal probe against the alleged  Russian arms trafficker, Viktor Bout, sources tell [...]

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UN Security Council Pressured to Address DRC Mapping Exercise Report

October 30, 2010

Photo: Hutu Young Men Massacred According to sources at the United Nations, the UN Security Council is under pressure to examine the UN Mapping Report in the month of November 2010.  However, the sources add that the chances of the UN Security Council, led by the United Kingdom for November 2010, will is unlikely. The [...]

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US Government Calls for Accountability for Crimes against Hutu in DRC

October 1, 2010

On Friday October 1, 2010, The United States Government, through the Assistant Secretary in charge of the Bureau of Public Affairs,  Philip J. Crowley, has called  for accountability for crimes committed against Congolese and Rwandan ethnic Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the last decades. The call follows the publication on [...]

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UN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TO PUBLISH REPORT ON HUTU GENOCIDE ON OCTOBER 1, 2010

September 29, 2010

Photo: Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The United Nations Human Rights Report has announced from Geneva that the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) mapping report detailing crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)  against Rwandan and Congolese Hutu will be published this Friday, October 1, 2010. [...]

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