9 May 2021 By AFP 1 min 12Approximate reading time Lawyers representing the alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, have requested that charges against him be dropped on the grounds he is unfit for trial. In a May 6 filing to the UN court’s branch in Tanzania, lawyer Emmanuel Altit said that medical reports prove that his 84-year-old client could not withstand trial. “Pursuing the case under these conditions would constitute a serious breach of Felicien Kabuga’s rights and would put into question the fairness of the trial,” the document, seen by AFP Sunday, states. “The court and the parties involved now have enough evidence to rule that the case must be stopped,” the lawyer added.
Facebook Kingsley Lyonga-la-Ngange, Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication is Cameroon’s best journalism trainer, awards committee of The Scoop Media Group said on Monday.
Following a poll organized by The Scoop Media Group for Cameroonians and other nationals, the Head of the University of Buea’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication was overwhelmingly acclaimed as the “2020 Best Journalism Trainer”.
Bagging home the “2020 Best Journalism Trainer Award” Monday, May 3, 2021, at WDC Aparthotel, Prof. Ngange delivered an epic lecture on “Information as a Public Good , the theme of this year s World Press Freedom Day.
“We are now in the 21
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The Rwandan genocide. Rwanda’s genocide. The genocide in Rwanda. The Rwandan tragedy. Literally, the word “Rwandan,” used as a noun or as a modifier, denotes anything or anyone belonging to or of Rwanda, thus its ambiguity an ambiguity that is a feature of every language. To understand the meaning of an ambiguous word or group of words, its context must be considered. For example, someone who knows little or nothing about the 1994 killings of Tutsis in Rwanda may infer from the phrase “the Rwandan genocide,” used without the truth of its historical context, that all Rwandans were victims of a genocide, which would also imply for the person that perpetrators were non-Rwand
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