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the remains of former president Nino Vieira were transferred to the martyrs’ cemetery

Eleven years after his death, the remains of the former president of Guinea-Bissau and the hero of the war of independence against Portugal, Joao Bernardo Vieira, known as Nino Vieira, murdered in 2009, were transferred to the cemetery of martyrs, the Bissau-Guinean pantheon. Former President Joao Bernardo Vieira should have been buried in the Square of the Heroes of Independence, in Damura Fortress. President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has decided to rectify this injustice by transferring his remains to the Pantheon of…

Félicien Kabuga is transferred to The Hague

Félicien Kabuga will eventually have to be transferred to The Hague rather than Arusha. This is the decision taken on Wednesday by a judge of the UN mechanism responsible for the latest cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). He was arrested on May 16 in the suburbs of Paris and prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity.…