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In a UN speech Wednesday, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Judith Suminwa, alerted to disparities between mineral-producing nations that facilitate AI and renewable energy growth and the nations that implement these technologies. “It would be both unjust and dangerous for added value, jobs, know-how, and technologies to remain concentrated far [...]

The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) brought charges against a Rwandan official on Tuesday in relation to crimes committed against the Tutsi during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Dr. Vincent Brown, formerly known as Dr. Vincent Bajinya, was the head of the Department of Family Health within Rwanda’s National Office of Population at the start of [...]

This interview with Nigel Biggar—Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest—was conducted in the aftermath of the twelve-day war between Iran and Israel, at a moment when questions of war, restraint, legality, and moral justification had once again forced themselves into global public consciousness. Experiencing [...]

JURIST’s Sarisha Harikrishna interviews Professor Dr. John D. Ciorciari, Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University Bloomington on the practical challenges of prosecuting genocide and war crimes in Asia. While international courts have established legal frameworks for addressing mass atrocities, their application in Asia faces distinct obstacles shaped by regional politics and diplomatic [...]

A coalition of Rwanda-allied armed groups has committed a range of atrocities against civilians that violate international humanitarian law in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including gang rapes and summary executions, according to Amnesty International. In a Wednesday briefing entitled “DRC: ‘They said we would die’: M23 and Wazalendo abuses in eastern Congo,” [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron sent a letter to Cameroonian President Paul Biya, dated July 30 but released on Tuesday, in which he officially acknowledged his country’s use of repressive violence before, during, and after Cameroon’s war of independence. Macron stated that the historians of the Franco-Cameroonian Commission studied the war that began in 1956, finding [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must take immediate action to combat human trafficking amid ongoing conflict in the country’s eastern regions, a high-ranking UN official urged Friday. Siobhán Mullally, the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, said in a statement:  Conflict-related trafficking of children by armed groups persists with impunity, and is at [...]

Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author of In Praise of Blood, which investigates mass violence under Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime, using survivor testimonies, former soldiers, and leaked UN documents. A Ryerson journalism graduate, Rever covered the Congo-Rwanda crisis for Radio France-Internationale in 1997 and later reported for Agence France-Presse. Her work has [...]

The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) announced Monday that the trial date for Roger Lumbala has been set. The former Congolese warlord will stand trial in Paris from November 17 to December 19 2025. He has been accused of complicity in and conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity, which allegedly took place during between 2002-2003. [...]

A US federal grand jury has brought an indictment against Eric Nshimye for his alleged concealment of his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide to obtain asylum and citizenship in the US. The Tuesday indictment outlined accusations against Nshimiye, spanning falsifying information, obstructing justice and committing perjury in connection with his immigration to the US. [...]