Hirondelle News

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The Hirondelle News Agency, based in Arusha, Tanzania, reported on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 1997 and the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2010. In June 2015, Hirondelle News handed over to JusticeInfo.net. The agency had more than 1,700 subscribers, including international and local media organizations especially in Rwanda and Tanzania, news agencies, universities, NGOs and individuals. Hirondelle News produced close to 11,000 dispatches, thus constituting one of the most important archives for these institutions, in four languages: English, French, Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda.

20.07.07 - RWANDA/GENOCIDE - FIRST RESULTS OFTHE TIG

Kigali, 20 July 2007 (FH) - Work of General Interest known as TIG (French acronym for Travaux d'Intérêt Général) introduced recently in Rwanda as an alternative sentence to imprisonment for genocide has already recorded its first results, according to the heads of the project.
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