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The trial of two Rwandan men accused of war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide begins Monday in Brussels. Half-brothers Etienne Nzabonimana and Samuel Ndashyikirwa are accused of helping the Hutu militia and are charged under Belgium's...

The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday sentenced Mika Muhimana, who was a councilor in the western Rwandan province of Kibuyea, to prison for the rest of his life for his...

Leading Thursday's international brief, the first troops of the UN peacekeeping force assigned to Sudan arrived in Khartoum Thursday to prepare the way for the more than 10,000 troops to follow. The 44 peacekeepers that arrived in...

Rwanda has condemned Burundi for moving a group of Hutu refugees farther from the countries' common border. The Rwandan government said the Hutus were fugitives and Burundi's actions amount to granting them asylum status. About 2,000...

The first post-genocide president in Rwanda , Pasteur Bizimungu , begins his appeal process Monday before the Rwandan Supreme Court to challenge his convictions for inciting civil disobedience, associating with criminals and embezzling public funds. Bizimungu is...

Rwanda's main group of Hutu rebels denounced the 1994 genocide of Tutsis for the first time Thursday and announced they were ending their war against the Rwanda government. Ignace Murwanashyaka, president...

JURIST Guest Columnists Jamal Jafari and Paul R. Williams of the Public International Law and Policy Group and American University's Washington College of Law insist that under legal standards the situation in Darfur constitutes genocide, whether the UN classifies it...

Former Rwandan mayor Juvenal Kajelijeli Monday began his courtroom appeal of a life sentence imposed on himm in 2003 by the UN-created International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda . Kajelijeli, onetime mayor...

Six Rwandan citizens have filed a lawsuit in France against French soldiers for their role in the Rwanda genocide . The Paris army tribunal, the only court which can try French troops for conduct committed abroad, will decide...

In Friday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan formally reported to the Security Council Friday morning on the finding of the special UN commission on the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. While the commission did...