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Caleb Kazadi

Democratic Republic of Congo - Correspondent

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Caleb Kazadi

Based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Caleb Kazadi has been Justice Info\'s correspondent since 2021. With a degree in International Relations from the University of Kinshasa, he is primarily interested in human rights issues. In June 2018, he joined Fondation Hirondelle and worked in the Swiss organization\'s radio and multimedia programs. Between 2019 and 2021, he moved to Kasai to cover the region\'s news as it emerged from violent armed conflict. He has also worked for the peacebuilding organization Search For Common Ground.

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Democratic Republic of Congo versus Rwanda: the conflict is now also being played out in African courts. Photo: An M23 soldier patrols near a coltan mine, a highly prized mineral that is believed to be one of Rwanda's motivations for its incursion into the DRC.
Kinshasa and Kigali face off in African courts
17 March 2025 by Caleb Kazadi
The conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda is now also being played out in the courts. That of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the aid fund for victims of the ‘6-day war’ (often called ‘Genocost’ in the DRC) is struggling to fulfil its mission. Frivao is suspected of embezzlement and needs to be overhauled. Photo: Kisangani cemetery. DRC: Victims’ fund overhauled  amid embezzlement suspicions
14 October 2024 by Caleb Kazadi
Despite a reserve of 195 million dollars paid by Uganda, the Special Reparation and Compensation Fund for Victims of Uganda's Armed Activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Frivao) is struggling to fulfil its mission: to id [...]
Kasai Truth Commission (Democratic Republic of Congo) - Children play on ruins in this region affected by the Kamwina Nsapu conflict. Kasai-Central Truth Commission renewed despite meagre record
29 August 2024 by Caleb Kazadi
Having reached the end of its first three-year mandate, the Kasai-Central Truth Commission was extended on July 18. Underfunded and poorly managed, the provincial institution has achieved nothing for the victims and establishing t [...]
Justice in Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Photo: people displaced by the conflict between the local Kamwina Nsapu militia and government forces wait to receive food rations. Kasai: how three senior officials escaped justice
17 June 2024 by Caleb Kazadi
On June 1, a trial on the violent Kamwina Nsapu insurrection in Tshikapa (Kasai province) ended in a resounding flop. After a few days of hearings, the military court of former Kasai Occidental declared that it did not have jurisd [...]
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Genocost - A victim of the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still waiting to be
31 August 2023 by Caleb Kazadi
When will Congolese “Genocost” victims receive reparations? On August 2, the Democratic Republic of Congo commemorated its millions of victims of "Genocost", as the Congolese call it -- a crime committed for the lure of economic gain (genocide + cost). Two reparations funds have been set u [...]
Trial in D.R. Congo - A woman victim of rape in Kasai, walks in the center of Mulombodi (DRC)
30 March 2023 by Caleb Kazadi
Congo: Two top brass on trial for crimes against humanity in Kasai An important trial in the "Mulombodi" case opened in Kinshasa on March 20, more than six years after the events. This religious site near Kananga airport was the scene of atrocities in September 2016. Two top Congolese police and [...]
Felix Tshisekedi and Denis Sassou Nguesso (foreground) attend the funeral ceremony of Patrice Lumumba (large portrait in background).
11 July 2022 by Caleb Kazadi
Lumumba's tooth is returned, while still waiting for truth Patrice Emery Lumumba, "father of Congolese independence", was finally buried on June 30 in Kinshasa 61 years after his assassination- This came after former colonial power Belgium returned his tooth ten days earlier. But while th [...]
A man in military clothing stands outside (Yumbi area). His face is not visible.
10 June 2022 by Caleb Kazadi
Yumbi massacres: Justice in slow motion Opened a year ago, the trial concerning ethnic violence in Yumbi, Democratic Republic of Congo, has been at a standstill since the beginning of April. Eighty people are on trial for acts including crimes against humanity during cl [...]