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Ephrem Rugiririza

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Ephrem Rugiririza is Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Africa of JusticeInfo.net. He has been covering transitional justice issues for more than 20 years. He began his career in 2001 as a correspondent for Rwanda’s Judicial Diplomacy magazine for which he covered genocide trials before the traditional Rwandan Gacaca courts. Two years later, he joined Fondation Hirondelle as a journalist at the Hirondelle News Agency, then based at the headquarters of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. He became editor-in-chief in 2009, before taking part in the creation of JusticeInfo.net in 2015. Ephrem Rugiririza also collaborates with other international media such as the Agence France Presse (AFP). He has also been a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Tanzania.

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Claude Muhayimana in Paris (2013)
French Justice Returns to Rwanda
22 November 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
For the third time, a trial is opening in France against a Rwandan accused of participating in the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. The case of Claude Muhayimana, a lowly hotel driver, will take the court back to the massacres in the [...]
State Council buildings in Paris, France Should a woman be penalized for having a genocidal husband?
15 November 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
In a recent article, a professor of public law analyses a French court decision to deny naturalization to a Rwandan woman because of her marital relationship with a man convicted of genocide. Behind the decision is the saga of an [...]
Carte situant le village de Mayi Munene, près de Tshikapa, dans la province du Kasaï en République démocratique du Congo. First trial in Kasai for crimes of the Kamuina Nsapu rebellion
8 November 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
For the first time in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai province, a former militia leader was on October 30 convicted of war crimes by Congolese military justice. This took place in one of the villages set on fire in 2017 d [...]
Statue représentant Rumben Um Cameroon: Um Nyobè, a hero and symbol of French colonial crimes
13 September 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Exactly 63 years ago, on September 13, 1958, Ruben Um Nyobè was shot by the French army. Perpetrated in the context of a "secret war" that Paris has never recognized, the assassination of this nationalist activist is now mobilizin [...]
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A Central African refugee in Congo
30 August 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: The Truth Commission with feet of clay A “Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission” was officially launched in July in Bangui, with the swearing in of its members and election of its executive body. Without facilities, without a budget and without peace [...]
Demonstration in Mauritania to demand the end of slavery
23 August 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Justice still in chains for Mauritania’s slaves August 23 is "International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition”. But in Mauritania slavery persists, even though it has, under international pressure, been qualified as a crime against humanity. Some obse [...]
Serge Brammertz poses for the UN
14 June 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Brammertz: “South Africa is a haven for fugitive genocide suspects” International prosecutor Serge Brammertz stepped up his tone on June 8 before the United Nations Security Council. He accused South Africa of protecting Fulgence Kayishema, a Rwandan genocide suspect who has been on the run for de [...]
Genocide survivor in Bisesero, Rwanda
27 May 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
French president asks forgiveness from Rwandan genocide survivors The French president began a visit to Rwanda on May 27. This historic visit should mark a new step to normalising relations between Paris and Kigali. Emmanuel Macron declared that he had come to recognise France’s “responsibilitie [...]
Béatrice Munyenyzezi escorted by police officers in Kigali
18 May 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Pauline, Shalom and Béatrice: genocide as a family affair in Butare An emblematic family is back in the news, as Rwandan courts prepare to open the trial of Béatrice Munyenyezi, who was extradited from the United States last April. The accused is none other than the wife of Arsène Shalom Ntahobali [...]
Judge Carmel Agius (IRMCT)
16 April 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
No release for Bagosora reflects sentencing policy switch Colonel Théoneste Bagosora, the most high profile convict of the UN’s former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, will have to continue serving his 35-year prison sentence in Mali. His request for early release, after 25 ye [...]
Villagers observe CVR-led exhumations in Burundi
4 March 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi’s TRC presents divisive activity report In 2020, the work of Burundi's Truth and Reconciliation Commission focused on the 1972 massacres, which primarily targeted Hutus. These were grave events, but choosing this period as a priority only fuels accusations that the comm [...]
A former child soldier of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda
4 February 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC trial of Dominic Ongwen: Are the spirits there? The International Criminal Court is to hand down its judgment today February 4 in the case of Ugandan rebel Dominic Ongwen, a former member of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Belief in spirits has been central to the arguments o [...]
4 December 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: Constitutional Court says no to war crimes suspects The Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic has dashed the hopes of former president François Bozizé and a dozen other members of armed groups. Their candidacies in the 27 December elections were invalidated. Bozizé, [...]
19 November 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Belgium: the money changer, the militiaman and the Rwandan academic There have been a series of arrests in Europe in recent months of Rwandans accused of participating in the 1994 genocide. After Félicien Kabuga in France, three people were arrested in Belgium in October and another one in the Net [...]
3 November 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
In DRC, reparations still a dream for victims of mass crimes In a country riddled with corruption, Congolese military justice appears to have set an example by convicting soldiers found guilty of serious crimes. This is nevertheless marred by failure to implement reparation orders, accordin [...]
24 August 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
The good and bad manners of Nigeria towards the ICC Nigeria is no doubt the African state that sent the strongest message supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the American president announced sanctions against it on June 11. But many say Nigeria is not fulfilling [...]
26 May 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Most wanted The man most wanted by international justice is now Protais Mpiranya. This Rwandan major commanded the presidential guard at the time of the assassination of opposition members and the genocide of Tutsis in 1994. He was pronounced [...]
16 April 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Covid-19: should we release vulnerable convicts? Covid-19 is spreading fear everywhere, including prisons. Senegal has just provisionally released Hissène Habré, 78, who was sentenced to life in 2017 for crimes against humanity. Lawyers for other prisoners convicted by internati [...]
3 April 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi Truth Commission exhumations caught up in elections Burundians are expected to go to the polls in May, but exhumations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are causing controversy. The government is suspected of playing on ethnic differences in an attempt to unite the Hutu el [...]
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