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Félicien Kabuga, the alleged “financier” of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, will be tried from September 29 in The Hague where he will face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, a United Nations judge announced Thursday. “The Chamber orders the trial in its branch in The Hague with the opening statements from September 29 (…) and the first depositions from October 5,” said Judge Iain Bonomy, of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MTPI), in charge of completing the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Kabuga, once one of Rwanda’s richest men, will face seven…

At least thirty eight people have died and several dozen were injured in forest fires that affected Wednesday 14 departments in northern Algeria, reviving the spectre of the summer of 2021, the deadliest in the country’s modern history. “Thirty eight people died: two in Setif (east) and 24 in El Tarf (east), near the border with Tunisia, Interior Minister Kamel Beldjoud announced during the 8:00 p.m. news). Several people suffered burns or breathing difficulties but no new official figure was given on the number of injured. A previous report by the civil protection said that four people had various degrees…

Ethiopian Girl Skaters is an all-girls skateboarding group that brings together young girls from different backgrounds, creating a community that challenges the stereotype that girls should not be involved in extreme sports like skateboarding. The project, founded by skateboarder Sosina Challa, invites many young girls to use their free time to learn a new sport that helps them improve their physical and mental health. AMN Reporters.

Félix Tshisekedi has taken the helm of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) during the 42nd Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of this organization which is being held in Kinshasa from August 17 and 18, 2022. He succeeds Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi. The outgoing SADC president called upon member countries to be independent of external influence especially the Democratic Republic of Kenya. “The plunder that we have allowed the West to conduct in the DRC is a sin we must repent on, resolve and refuse to see repeated anywhere else in our…

A devastating drought in Somalia has reached unprecedented levels, as the one millionth person displaced by the drought was registered this week. More than 755,000 people have been internally displaced in Somalia because of the severe drought this year, bringing the total figure to 1 million people since January 2021 when the drought began, according to displacement figures released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). “This one million milestone serves as a massive alarm bell for Somalia,” said Mohamed Abdi, NRC’s Country Director in Somalia. “Starvation is now haunting the entire country. We…

A section of Malians is not convinced enough that their country’s security element will change. After the last French soldiers completed their withdrawal from Mali more than nine years, some Malians believe their country’s military can handle the security issues in the west African state. France pulled out of the country in the face of deep hostility after falling out with colonels who seized power nearly two years ago. “I, like many other Malians, have been waiting impatiently for the departure of the foreign troops, but after this departure that we are all waiting for, there are many things to…

The just concluded Kenya election has elicited mixed reactions following the chaotic declaration of the former Deputy President William Ruto. Ruto promised to work with everyone and admitted that he will not seek revenge against anyone in his government. “There is no room for vengeance. There is no room for looking back, we are looking forward to the future. I am acutely aware that our country is at a stage where we need all hands on deck to move it forward,” said William Ruto, the president-elect of Kenya. Nairobi was quiet last night, people in the street appear hopeful of a…

Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga, a triumph for the man who shook up politics by appealing to struggling Kenyans on economic terms and not on traditional ethnic ones. However, chaos emerged just before the declaration when the electoral commission’s vice chair and three other commissioners told journalists they could not support the “opaque nature” of the final phase. “We cannot take ownership of the result that is going to be announced,” vice chair Juliana Cherera said. At the declaration venue, police surged to…

The United Nations Mission in Mali (UNMIS), which has been suspended for the past month, will resume troop rotations on Monday with a new approval mechanism amid diplomatic tensions between Bamako and its partners. “UNMISMA has agreed to the new procedures and has communicated them to all troop-contributing countries. There will be no exceptions,” Minister Abdoulaye Diop told AFP. “It is planned that the rotations will start again this Monday,” confirmed Myriam Dessables, spokeswoman for the 12,261-strong Minusma and 1,718 police officers. Before, “they (the contingents) would contact us directly. We have put an end to that. All requests must…

Kholoud Massaed of the Hadaria tribe in Sudan vividly recalls the day her face was scarred with a sharp blade, an ancient practice that was once common. Now in her 80s, she still carries on each cheek the three lesion lines that have since darkened over time. “They took me to a man who was known to carry out this practice. He did it with a small knife,” Massaed told AFP in her village of Om Maghad, some 66 kilometres (40 miles) south of Khartoum. “I was seven years old and I cried. They told me I should have these…