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Norway can extradite man wanted by Rwanda for his alleged role in the African nation's 1994 genocide
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man arrested in Norway who is wanted by Rwanda for his alleged role in the African nation's 1994 genocide can be extradited, Norwegian police said Friday. The man in his 40s, who was not identified, was arrested in the Norwegian capital of Oslo nearly a...
A serial killer pleads guilty in Rwanda to killing 14 people
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A serial killer in Rwanda pleaded guilty at a court Thursday, saying he killed 14 people. Most of the victims were women. Denis Kazungu, 34, admitted guilt to charges that included murder, rape and robbery. He appeared at the Kicukiro Court in the capital,...
Rwanda's president says he'll run for a fourth term and doesn't care what the West thinks about it
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s president declared he will run for a fourth term next year, saying that “what the West thinks is not my problem,” after the United States and others criticized the earlier lifting of term limits to extend his rule. President Paul Kagame made the...
Rwanda will host a company's 1st small-scale nuclear reactor testing carbon-free energy approach
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s atomic energy board says it has signed a deal with a Canadian-German company to build its first small-scale nuclear reactor to test what the company asserts is a new nuclear fission approach in one of the world's most densely populated countries. ...
Suspect serial killer arrested in Rwanda after over 10 bodies found in a pit at his home
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Police say a suspected serial killer has been arrested in Rwanda after the discovery of the bodies of more than 10 people in a pit dug in his compound. Neighbors on Thursday told The Associated Press that Denis Kazungu, 34, spoke very little. ...
An alarming humanitarian crisis and massive sexual violence wrack eastern Congo, UN official says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked eastern Congo has deteriorated alarmingly in the past 18 months with 8 million people in urgent need of assistance and women and girls subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale -- just in three provinces, a senior U.N....
US sanctions military leaders accused of making violence worse in eastern Congo
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on six people it accuses of exacerbating violence in eastern Congo. The sanctioned Rwandan and Congolese individuals “belong to one of four key militias or armed forces contributing to instability in the eastern...
6 dead, more than 50 rescued from capsized migrant boat in the English Channel
LONDON (AP) — An overloaded boat carrying migrants capsized before dawn Saturday in the English Channel, killing at least six people and leaving more than 50 others to be rescued, according to French authorities. About 65 people were estimated to have boarded the boat and two...
Rwanda genocide survivors criticize UN court's call to permanently halt elderly suspect's trial
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide criticized Tuesday a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an alleged financer and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect's ill health. The ruling Monday sends the matter...
UN appeal judges toss out plan to set up procedure to hear evidence against Rwandan genocide suspect
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges on Monday threw out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a procedure to hear evidence against an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect who was declared unfit to face trial. The decision likely means that Félicien Kabuga's trial,...
