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Rwandan refugees in Zimbabwe accused of fuelling anti-Kagame agenda
Zimbabwe is harbouring a covert network of Rwandan refugees opposed to President Paul Kagame's government who are accused of engaging in clandestine operations aimed at sabotaging diplomatic ties betw...Published: 21 May 2025 at 11:16hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The International Criminal Court a ridiculous organisation
The world has recently been surprised to hear that the ICC has issued a ‘warrant of arrest' for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The central charge against him is that he is responsible for the abd...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Ian Beddowes
Zimbabwe agrees extradition deal with Rwanda
ZIMBABWE and Rwanda last week signed an agreement that will help expedite "two specific criminal cases" as Kigali seeks the extradition of individuals suspected of involvement in the country's 1994 ge...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a safe haven for wanted genocidists
The Zimbabwe government is known for deploying the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to commit genocide in which over 40 000 Matabele civilians including women and children were dasta...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 11:54hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
'Rwandan fugitive had valid Congolese passport'
FOREIGN Affairs deputy minister David Musabayana has claimed that Rwandan genocide fugitive, Protais Mpiranya, entered the country on a Congolese passport and that government did not know his alias....Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 28 | by Dumisani Muleya
Zimbabwe rubbishes Biti's claim that it harboured Rwandan genocide fugitive
FOREIGN Affairs Deputy Minister, David Musabayana, has dismissed claims by Citizens Coalition for Change vice president, Tendai Biti that the government knowingly harboured Rwanda's most wanted genoci...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda, Zimbabwe relations in spotlight
PARLIAMENT has summoned Foreign Affairs minister Frederick Shava to explain why Zimbabwe brought in, harboured and buried one of the world's most wanted genocidaires, Protais Mpiranya, the last of the...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Another Rwandan fugitive confirmed dead
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) yesterday confirmed the death of Phénéas Munyarugarama, one of the remaining fugitives indicted by ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Rwanda calls out Zimbabwe on genocide
RWANDAN authorities have expressed dismay on how the Zimbabwean government is portraying the 1994 genocide against Tutsis.In an official statement released by Foreign Affairs minister Frederic...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt sweats over Rwandan fugitive links
GOVERNMENT has denied harbouring Rwandese genocide fugitive Protais Mpiranya, saying it abided by international treaties.Mpiranya, who has been held responsible for the massacre of thousands o...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Rwanda did to bring real reconciliation after brutal genocide is exactly what Zimbabwe refuses to do
The international community today, commemorates the beginning of one of the darkest, most horrific, and barbaric incidents in world history - the Rwanda genocide of April 7 to July 15, 1994, in which ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Malaba case: The key actors
ZIMBABWE, for the past four months has been going through a constitutional test and legal drama following the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term in May, which was put to bed last week follo...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rape allegations must be handled responsibly
As a lawyer, I have handled many rape cases in several countries where I have worked, including in international criminal tribunals. I was a trial attorney in the first "rape as a crime against humani...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by Siphosami Malunga
Chamisa to be arrested
Reports from MDC Alliance rallies in recent days echo a common theme: if their candidate loses there will be anger, despair, and even revolution. Chamisa's supporters site the election as being r...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 19:32hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The lessons of the Rwandan Genocide have not been learnt by Chamisa's MDC
In 1992, an official in Rwanda's ruling Hutu party, Leon Mugeseraa, said in front of more than 1,000 party members that the Tutsis were cockroaches and they should be disposed of.Only a few mo...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Jealousy Dutiro
UN delegation meets Chiwenga
A delegation from the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has paid a courtesy call on Vice President Retired General Dr Constantino Chiwenga who is also the Defense and War V...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 16:52hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Gukurahundi: Walking in the deathly shadows of Kigali and Banjul
Should the architects of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in Matabeleland and Midlands face legal action in an independent court of law convened in Zimbabwe, Africa or abroad? On May 30, 2016, His...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 15:19hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
Campaign to extradite Ethiopia's dictator Mengistu from Zimbabwe
In a move that stunned the world, Zimbabwe's defense forces ousted President Robert Mugabe from power on November 21 2017, bringing his 37 years of strongman rule to an end. When his successor, ...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 07:31hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
South Africa: ICC Move Betrays Victims
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty represents an enormous blow to its commitment to justice for atrocity crimes, Human Rights Watch s...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 12:39hrs | | by APO
The Herald, Kangura, and Radio Mille Collines' and incitement to genocide
Yesterday I wrote an article denouncing The Herald's incitement to genocide over the article the paper ran about an alleged ...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 10:18hrs | | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
AU - ICC stand-off: Justice and Peace Paradigms
A Speech by Dr Gorden Moyo made at the Bulawayo Agenda Dialogue Series-23 June 2015The current stand-off between the African Union (AU) and the Interna...Published: 23 Jun 2015 at 20:47hrs | 17 | by Dr Gorden Moyo
The Special Court for Sierra Leone rests - for good
The Special Court for Sierra Leone made its final major decision on 26 September 2013 when its Appeals Chamber upheld the 50-year sentence handed down to former Liberian President Charles Taylor. ...Published: 14 Jun 2014 at 09:37hrs | 5 | by Lansana Gberie
UN Secretary-general, in message for commemoration of Rwanda genocide
NEW YORK - Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message for the commemoration of the Ban Ki-moon's message for the commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda, to be observed on 7 April:...Published: 08 Apr 2013 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by APO
U.S offers up to $5m each bounties for Joseph Kony and some of his top aides
The United States has offered bounties of up to $5m each for fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and some of his top aides in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group.The announcement on ...Published: 04 Apr 2013 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim police offers $5 million reward for info on former Rwandan commander
A former Commander of the Rwanda Presidential Guard, Protais Mpiranya, who is believed to be in Zimbabwe, is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in connection with the 1994 genoci...Published: 18 Sep 2012 at 04:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
The reforms Zimbabwe badly needs
I was most amused to hear Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC-T president threatening Generals for political involvement. He, of all people! Just two weeks before, the man had met with one General Wesley Clark...Published: 09 Jun 2012 at 07:32hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe happy to host UN rights chief
Patrick Chinamasa, the Zimbabwean Justice Minister, says Zimbabwe is happy to host the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay "because we have nothing to hide in terms of human rights issue...Published: 21 May 2012 at 11:29hrs | | by Sapa
The Copac Draft and the politics of constitution-making
A political storm is supposedly brewing over the Article in the 'leaked' Copac draft constitution which allegedly seeks to disqualify President Mugabe as a presidential candida...Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 17:40hrs | | by Ndabezinhle Edwin Mkwananzi
Africans shortlisted to lead ICC
New York - Two Africans are on a shortlist of four candidates to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the top war crimes tribunal, the selection panel sa...Published: 26 Oct 2011 at 15:05hrs | | by -
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