Since 2000, governments, financial investors, and national and transnational corporate actors have been involved in land deals covering over 38.9 million hectares of land in developing countries – an area greater in size than Germany. Conservative estimates suggest that over 12 million people have lost their incomes as a result of the recent land rush – more than a third of the number of people internally displaced due to conflict and a quarter of the number of migrations induced by natural hazards in 2012. In Cambodia alone, an estimated 830,000 people have been affected by land grabbing since 2000, including over 60,000 additional victims in an eighteen-month period beginning in early 2014.
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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.
An event in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, to commemorate the genocide of 1994.
Africa’s Great Lakes region is marked by violent conflict, migration and constantly recurring dynamics of violence. The experience has traumatised the people, and the failure to properly address their suffering has exacerbated the propensity for violence – and the potential for further conflict.
The Rwandan genocide of 1994, which left more than 800,000 people dead, was an incisive event. It destabilised the entire region. Many Rwandan refugees gathered across the border in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). New armed groups formed in the confusing scenario. In 1996, the First Congo War erupted, marking the start of an enormous military confrontation, and conflicts over land, natural resources and power continue to this day.
Tanzanian Court orders retrial of foreigners, including a Liberian and Guinean jailed for drug trafficking Tanzanian Court orders retrial of foreigners, including a Liberian and Guinean jailed for drug trafficking
Guinean Diaka Brama Kaba, 63, and Liberian Aboubakar Ndjane, 60, were arrested at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in June 2010 shortly after they stepped off a South African Airways plane.
Dar es Salaam. The Court of Appeal has ordered a fresh trial for a Liberian and Guinean serving 22-year jail sentences for trafficking 31 kilogrammes of cocaine worth about Sh1.2 billion over procedural irregularities during their trial. The two were sentenced in 2017… But the highest court in the land said the prosecution’s failure to amend and/or substitute the charge sheet after the discharge of three other people who were jointly charged with them was a fatal irregularity that caused miscarriage of justice.
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