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Balthazar Nduwayezu

Tanzania - Correspondent

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Balthazar Nduwayezu

Since May 2022, Balthazar Nduwayezu has been covering the Félicien Kabuga trial for Justiceinfo. He is a Rwandan journalist based in Arusha, Tanzania, who has covered all the trials of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from the outset for Agence de Presse Hirondelle and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and continued with coverage of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) after the closure of the ICTR. He also covers trials at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the East African Court of Justice (EACJ). He began as a freelancer for Justiceinfo in 2016.

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Kabuga's money - Photo: bundles of banknotes (Rwandan francs)
Will the UN ever recover Kabuga’s money?
7 November 2024 by Balthazar Nduwayezu (our correspondent in Arusha)
Bogged down in its proceedings, will the UN Mechanism, the successor to the Tribunal for Rwanda set up thirty years ago, recover Félicien Kabuga’s money one day? Located in France, Belgium and Rwanda thanks to his son, the assets [...]
UN Residual Mechanism (IRMCT) - Photo: Félicien Kabuga, in a wheelchair, is accompanied by two police officers during his trial, handled by the Mechanism, for his involvement in the Rwandan genocide. Rwanda: the residual debacles of the Residual Mechanism
29 July 2024 by Balthazar Nduwayezu (our correspondent in Arusha, Tanzania)
The UN Mechanism that has performed for 14 years the “residual” functions of the Rwanda and former Yugoslavia tribunals has just been extended to complete its own residual tasks. With regard to Rwanda, it needs to break the deadlo [...]
Highly diplomatic transfer of Fulgence Kayishema from South Africa - Photo: Serge Brammertz speaks to the press. What's happening in the Kayishema case?
2 November 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu (our correspondent in Arusha, Tanzania)
What has happened since the arrest five months ago in South Africa of Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last four fugitives wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda? A new arrest warrant was made public in September, call [...]
End of the Kabuga trial - The final curtain has fallen on the trial of Félicien Kabuga. Final curtain falls on Kabuga trial
22 August 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
It's the end of an era: the last major suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide will not be tried by international justice. On August 7, the Appeals Chamber of the international Mechanism, which took over from the UN tribunal for Rwand [...]
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Félicien Kabuga is found unfit to participate in his trial by medical experts. He suffers from senile dementia.
4 April 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Doctors say Kabuga trial should be stopped Is Félicien Kabuga, alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, fit to stand trial? This question has been raised ever since his arrest. Last week, at the request of the defence, medical experts took the stand to give their [...]
Transfer of the first UN prison to the Tanzanian State
7 March 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
The life and death of the first UN prison On February 28, the doors of the first ever UN prison closed on 27 years of memories left by former Rwandan dignitaries but also more ordinary people. Félicien Kabuga, who should have been its last resident, is on trial in The Hag [...]
IRMCT security staff in Arusha, Tanzania
16 February 2023 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga: The lost dream of Arusha’s white elephant The Tanzanian branch of the UN residual "Mechanism" for criminal tribunals has marked ten years of existence in silence and without a trial. That of Félicien Kabuga, which resumes this week, is taking place in The Hague (see box). [...]
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28 November 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga: Last major trial of the Rwandan genocide behind closed doors Félicien Kabuga’s arrest was announced as a great success and his trial as an important event. But little has been heard about this trial that started on September 29 – for good reason, because the trial of Kabuga, alleged financi [...]
3 lawyers, in robes, are sitting
26 September 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga trial to start amid defence conflict The long-awaited trial of Félicien Kabuga, alleged mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is due to start on September 29 in The Hague. However, the accused is appearing with a lawyer he has been rejecting for almost two years. [...]
indigenous child ogiek kenya
29 July 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kenya ordered to redress wrongs done to Ogiek indigenous minority The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights on June 23 ordered the Kenyan government to return to the indigenous Ogiek people their ancestral lands. Kenya was also ordered to pay reparations to the community, which has been rep [...]
Illustration of a villa lost in the desert. A barbed wire fence in the foreground with a sign displaying a UN (ICTR) logo.
9 June 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
The punishment of the stateless ICTR "migrants" Six months have passed since eight people acquitted or released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were transferred by the UN to Niger, supposedly to live freely and permanently. But they are still without pa [...]
Félicien Kabuga during a (remote) hearing of his trial
16 May 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Kabuga: Still no trial two years after his arrest The trial of Félicien Kabuga, octogenarian alleged mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was initially announced for the end of 2021, but it has not begun and no one can say when it might start. The health of the former busines [...]
The 8 Rwandans acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) blocked in Niger
11 January 2022 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Bitter Christmas in Niger for the international justice stateless Even in their worst nightmares, the eight Rwandans never imagined being in a worse dead-end than the one they were living in Arusha. Although they were acquitted or released years ago from the International Criminal Tribunal for R [...]
30 September 2019 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Former Rwandan minister Ngirabatware loses his retrial His own witnesses ruined his case. The first genocide convict to receive a review trial failed in his attempt to have his sentence overturned or reduced, the Mechanism dealing with residual cases of the International Criminal Trib [...]