· Bizimungu sentenced to 30 years in prison · Nzuwonemeye and Sagahutu each sentenced to 20 years imprisonment · Ndindiliyimana sentenced to time served since 2000 and released Trial Chamber II of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda today convicted Augustin Bizimungu, François-Xavier Nzuwonemeye, Innocent Sagahutu and Augustin Ndindiliyimana in the ‘Military II’ trial. It subsequently sentenced Bizimungu to 30 years in prison and Nzuwonemeye and Sagahutu each to 20 years imprisonment while Ndindiliyimana was sentenced to time served since he was arrested in Belgium on 29... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, May 17th 2011 |
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, composed of Judge Patrick Robinson, presiding, Judge Mehmet Güney, Judge Fausto Pocar, Judge Liu Daqun, and Judge Theodor Meron, on 30 March 2011 and 1 April 2011, heard the oral arguments in the appeals lodged by Théoneste Bagosora and Anatole Nsengiyumva against the Judgement pronounced by Trial Chamber I on 18 December 2008 and filed in writing on 9 February 2009. The case of Aloys Ntabakuze, which was scheduled to be heard at this time, was severed from that of Bagosora and Nsengiyumva in the interests of justice due to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, April 1st 2011 |
By Nawa Mutumweno, Reporting for Shout-Africa.com – The long-awaited COMESA Monetary Institute (CMI) meant to fast-track the realization of the regional economic bloc’s Monetary Co-operation Programme has commenced operations in March 2011. According to the latest COMESA e-newsletter, the monetary cooperation programme’s ultimate aim is to create the COMESA Monetary Union in the year 2018. The institute was officially launched on March 7, 2011 at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies in Nairobi. The creation of the CMI was decided by the 13th meeting of the COMESA Committee of Governors of Central Banks which took place in Cairo, Egypt in... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, March 19th 2011 |
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Publish Date: Thursday, March 17th 2011 |
By Nangayi Guyson – BLANTYRE, Malawi (AFP) – Rwanda’s refugees minister General Marcel Gatsinzi has called on some 2,000 refugees in Malawi to come home, saying the country had returned to peace and stability, local media said on Sunday. Malawi’s Sunday Times quoted Rwanda’s refugees minister saying.”Please return home. There is peace in Rwanda, there is security in Rwanda.” Gatsinzi told the refugees not to fear “wrong information” telling them they would be prosecuted for genocide if they returned home. He said such information was being spread by “fugitive Rwandans who committed crimes during the genocide and are on the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, February 13th 2011 |
