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By Stephanie Ho Washington 31 May 2006 President Bush welcomed Rwandan President Paul Kagame to the White House, saying he is honored to welcome a leader Mr. Bush described as a man of action. At a news conference at the Voice of America later Wedne
Twenty Years On, Questions of Rwandan Justice Persist 大屠杀二十年后,卢旺达的司法仍存在问题 KIGALI At the main prison in Kigali, inmates who have been tried in court wear orange outfits. Those still awaiting trial wear pink, but the
20 Years After Genocide, Rwanda Prospers but Political Freedom Remains Elusive KIGALI Rwanda today is a remarkable story of renewal and rapid economic development. Looking around the capital, it is hard to imagine that only 20 years ago, the country
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 08 October 2006 Saddam Hussein's stormy trial on genocide charges resumes Monday, more than a week after he and his co-defendants were expelled from the courtroom. A separate case on mass murder charges re-convenes the foll
By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 17 October 2006 Saddam Hussein adjusts his headphones as he listens to witness testimony during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, October 17, 2006 The genocide trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Husse
By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 27 September 2006 Former Bosnian Serb political leader Momcilo Krajisnik has been sentenced by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to 27 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed against Muslims and Croats in th
By Dan Robinson Washington 02 March 2006 Members of Congress who recently visited Sudan's western Darfur region say they are attempting to ensure that sufficient funds are included in spending legisla
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 November 2006 The international press watchdog Reporters Without Borders Tuesday called on the Rwandan government to reverse its decision to prohibit a French radio station from broadcasting in the country. The blocking
By Noel King Khartoum 21 February 2006 African Union peacekeeper and colleagues in the background (File photo - Nov. 10, 2005) Tensions are running high in Sudan, as a controversial proposal that woul
By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 27 February 2006 Bosnian survivors demonstrate, carrying banners bearing the names of each of the more than 8,000 victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, outside the P
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2007 An international human-rights watchdog is warning that Rwanda could erupt into a new cycle of violence if the authorities do not protect participants of the country's grassroots trials that hear and prosecute
Several of the world's top footballers came to Rwanda this week to play a charity match in support of the country's genocide survivors. The VOA correspondent reports from Kigali on the unifying power of sports in a country still healing from the div
U.S. President Barack Obama begins a two day visit to Turkey starting Sunday. The United States and Turkey have strong ties but relations have been strained in recent years, mostly over the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But Turkish ties to Iran, Iraq Afgha
The U.N. Security Council has visited a memorial to victims of the Rwanda genocide and pledged support to efforts to end the fighting that has haunted Africa's Great Lakes region for more than a decade. Rwanda Genocide Memorial The 15 Security Counc
U.S. policy toward Sudan and international efforts to devise a lasting and effective solution to the situation in Darfur are receiving attention from the Congress this week. Two House of Representatives committees and one Senate panel are looking at
U.S. policy toward Sudan and international efforts to devise a lasting and effective solution to the situation in Darfur are receiving attention from the Congress this week. Two House of Representatives committees and one Senate panel are looking at
By Dan Robinson Washington 06 April 2006 Demonstrators on Darfur outside US Capitol Activists pressing for stronger U.S. and international action on Darfur rallied at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. As we
By Dan Robinson Washington 08 March 2006 A key committee of the U.S. Congress has approved legislation aimed at stepping up pressure on the government of Sudan because the situation in Darfur. A measu
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made his first appearance before the international tribunal in The Hague which is to try him on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to his role in the Bosnian war of the 1990
By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 07 November 2006 Saddam Hussein called for Iraqis to forgive each other when he returned to court for a genocide trial two days after another panel of judges had condemned him to death for crimes against humanity. He sti