Tag: genocide

Cape Town-based non-profit organisation (NPO) Open Secrets wants Pretoria resident Willem “Ters” Ehlers prosecuted for aiding and abetting the April 1994 Rwanda genocide. It submitted...

As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda, it is important to understand what...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will be holding public hearings on 11-12 January at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of...

A South African law enforcement task team was on the receiving end of thanks from the United Nations (UN) following the arrest of Fulgence...

Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia's parliament as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1 billion German compensation offer to atone for...

Germany apologised for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia (then South West Africa) over a century ago and described...

French President Emmanuel Macron said only Rwandans could forgive France for its role in the east African country's 1994 genocide. "On this path, only those...

The head of Ethiopia's Orthodox Church has said that atrocities amounting to genocide are being committed in Tigray, in his first comments on the...

A Rwandan woman who was deported by the United States and is facing charges related to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda appeared in court...

France was aware that a genocide was being prepared in Rwanda ahead of the 1994 killings and the French government bore a significant responsibility...

A Rwandan woman who was deported by the United States after serving a prison term for lying on her naturalisation application faces seven charges...

Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday it had arrested three people of Rwandan origin who were charged with serious violations of international law...

The remains of a fugitive major suspect in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide have been identified in a grave in Congo, a United Nations war crimes...

Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga, whose arrest on Saturday ended 26 years on the run, was a frail, elderly man who said little to...

Valerie Mukabayire lost her husband in Rwanda’s genocide. Now she and her family need to stay strong to honour his memory as they join...

Killings, rapes and other barbaric violence committed by an ethnic armed group in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo may amount to crimes against humanity...

A German minister described the slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago as genocide, one of the most...

A Rwandan man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after being convicted of concealing his involvement in the African nation’s 1994...

A US appeals court revived a lawsuit against BNP Paribas SA by alleged victims of a genocidal regime in Sudan, who sought to hold...

President Emmanuel Macron appointed researchers to carry out a two-year investigation into the role of the French army in the Rwandan genocide still a...

Namibian tribes seeking damages over genocide and property seizures by Germany more than a century ago said on Thursday they would appeal a U.S....

A US judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking Germany to pay damages for genocide and property seizures by colonists in what is now Namibia more...

Skulls and other remains of massacred tribespeople used in the colonial era for experiments to push claims of European racial superiority were...

A lawyer for Germany on Tuesday urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the country on behalf of the...

Three non-government organisations (NGOs) filed a lawsuit in Paris against French bank BNP Paribas, alleging it knowingly approved a transfer of $1.3...

A Rwandan accused of leading and co-ordinating attacks on minority Tutsis during Rwanda's 1994 genocide was sentenced to life imprisonment for his...

Killings and other atrocities in South Sudan amount to genocide and African leaders need to "step up" and not rely on others...

A Swedish court of appeal on Wednesday upheld the life imprisonment verdict it gave to a man for genocide during the Rwanda...

Last week, a mass grave was discovered in a village in central Burundi. Builders, breaking ground for a new school, uncovered the...

Germany was sued for damages in the United States on Thursday by descendants of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia, for...

The international community can stop a "Rwanda-like" genocide in South Sudan if it immediately deploys a 4,000-strong protection force and sets up...

South Sudanese soldiers brutally raped an elderly woman and a pregnant woman lost her baby after being gang-raped by seven soldiers, according...

A Rwandan military tribunal began hearings on Thursday against a former army officer deported from Canada last month to face charges in...

Two Rwandans extradited from the Netherlands to their home country pleaded not guilty during a preliminary court hearing in Kigali to crimes...

Islamic State militants must be brought to justice for the sexual enslavement of Yazidis in Iraq, a prominent American lawyer said ahead...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame criticised France on Monday after French investigators reopened an investigation into the 1994 assassination of the Rwandan president,...

A professor arrived back in Rwanda on Wednesday after being extradited from the United States to stand trial for his part in...

Thousands of Yazidis are being held captive by Islamic State in Syria where many are used for sexual slavery or forced to...

A Rwanda court handed a life sentence on Friday to a former senior politician for hate speech aimed at stirring up killings...

A prosecutor in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday he had charged 34 people with genocide and crimes against humanity in...

Iraq told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that Islamic State militants have committed genocide. "These terrorist groups have desecrated all human...

French prosecutors are seeking a life term for a Rwandan ex-soldier accused of participating in the country's 1994 genocide, in a verdict...

The head of a United Nations commission of inquiry into violence in Central African Republic expressed alarm on Monday over the level...

Central African Republic transitional leader Michel Djotodia on Saturday denied European assertions that his country was on the brink of genocide and...

The UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda found former mayor Gregoire Ndahimana guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity on Thursday for...

The appeals chamber at the UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda upheld the 25-year prison sentence on former military officer Ephrem Setako...

President Barack Obama ordered new measures to boost the US ability to stop mass atrocities such as genocide and bar perpetrators of...

Sweden will extradite a Rwandan to face charges related to crimes carried out during the genocide in the African country more than...