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It is important not to forget this, because the responsibility for the massacre has still not been established and two years later, hundreds of survivors and their families are still waiting for justice to be done. The investigations are still ongoing, but there has been no communication from the authorities, but these are serious crimes and therefore the preliminary report should be published to ensure that the investigations are carried out. transparent and impartial. What we do know is that at…

Thirty years ago, on Saturday, December 1, 1990, Idriss Déby seized power in Chad after his predecessor, Hissène Habré, was expelled from the patriotic salvation movement. We then discovered the atrocities of the Habré regime, which lasted for almost eight years: about 40,000 dead, according to a commission of inquiry led by the new authorities. At that time, many prisoners also regained their freedom.…

About fifty women who were raped in the Kasapa prison in Lubumbashi are still waiting to be taken into custody. These women were held in this prison during the riots that shook the prison on September 25, 26 and 27. Since then, they have not seen a gynecologist or a judge. They have been abandoned to their sad fate. RFI was able to meet them on the spot.…

Four years after Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi was sentenced to nine years in prison by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and the destruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums, a delegation from the Trust Fund for Victims traveled to Bamako. The states that have signed the Rome Statute contribute to this fund. For Mali, 1.8 billion CFA francs will be granted from January 2021 to the tomboukti victims identified after the Al Faqi trial. About a thousand people, mainly the beneficiaries of the Mausoleum Saints who…

36 Negro Mauritanians were arrested on Saturday (November 28th) as they tried to march on the official platform where President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani was taking part in a military parade marking the 60th anniversary of national independence. For part of the Negro-African community, the national festival has been synonymous with grief since November 28, 1990, when 28 black officers were executed at a…

The country celebrates its 60th anniversary of its independence this Saturday, November 28. But this date also marks another anniversary, painful: the massacre of 28 black soldiers, hanged at the base of the Inal, in the Nouadhibou region, on November 28, 1990. A drama that is part of a period of bloody repression against the Negro Mauritanians, between 1989 and 1991. A period was qualified as…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is without doubt one of the nations the place the rape of ladies is usually used as a weapon of warfare. In line with a UN report from 2019, the nation registered 900 rape victims, most of whom had been registered within the japanese a part of the nation, which was suffering from armed battle.…

The first hearings of the trial of the leaders against Balaka Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred YekatomRhombot are scheduled for The Hague on 9 February. In the Central African Republic, the International Criminal Court continues to receive the victims of these two alleged perpetrators and carefully records their testimony. as…

In Sudan, bodies found in tombs near Khartoum are buried. The prosecutor announced the launch of new stages in the investigation of these remains that were discovered ten days ago, not far from Khartoum. Authorities believe they are victims of the June 3, 2019. Massacre. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethThe bodies are…

On the run from the fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray province, thousands of refugees - 38,000 according to the UNHCR - continue to flee to Sudan. In parallel with the offensive led by the troops of the regular army, they say they were victims of the Amharas, the neighboring ethnic group of the Tigrayans. Militias and armed groups wanted to allocate their land.…