Rwanda

Dutch NGO fights ethnic conflicts in Congo with soap opera

Amsterdam  - Can a soap opera educate people and stop ethnic violence? Dutch non-government organization Radio La Benevolencija thinks it can.

The organization produces radio shows and media campaigns in central Africa with the aim of helping locals understand the workings of political propaganda and withstand incitement to ethnic and racial violence.

La Benevolencija also plans to develop activities in the Netherlands, to help the Dutch cope with their own ethnic tensions.

"We are in the business of media education," says George Weiss, founder and director of the Amsterdam-based NGO. "We teach people to recognize incitement so that they can act against it."

Extradited senior Rwandan politician arrives in France

Paris Bourse slumps as recession fears take hold Paris , Frankfurt - Rose Kabuye, a senior Rwandan politician, was extradited Wednesday from Germany to France, where she is wanted for questioning in connection with the 1994 assassination of former Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana.

Germany extradites Rwandan politician to France

RwandaFrankfurt - Rose Kabuye, 47, a senior Rwandan politician, was extradited Wednesday from Germany to France, where she is wanted for questioning in connection with a 1994 assassination.

German federal police said she left on a flight from Frankfurt to Paris in the early afternoon.

Since arresting her on November 9 when she arrived by plane, Germany had been waiting for French police to pick her up. She was wanted under a European arrest warrant issued by the French.

Last week, Kabuye agreed to fast-track extradition and German judges approved her being handed over to France.

Kagame condemns French indictment against aide

Rwanda MapGeneva - Rwandan President Paul Kagame criticized on Wednesday the decision to arrest his aide, Rose Kabuye, earlier this week, saying it was a violation of his nation's sovereignty.

"If we are to believe that any village judge in France can indict someone from Rwanda, then I assume the reverse is also true," Kagame told reporters, adding that the international justice system needed to be "harmonized."

Kagame was speaking at a press conference of the International Telecommunication Union on cybersecurity and climate change in Geneva.

Rwanda expels German ambassador over genocide arrest

Rwanda expels German ambassador over genocide arrest Nairobi/Kigali, Rwanda - Rwanda on Tuesday expelled the German ambassador to Kigali and called back its own ambassador from Berlin as anger over the arrest of a Rwandan official accused of involvement in the assassination of a former Rwandan president escalated.

Rose Kabuye, chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was arrested on Sunday in Frankfurt on a French warrant.

She is suspected of being involved in the assassination of Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana - an act that sparked the 1994 genocide of up to 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Rwandan president visits German jail to meet aide

Paul KagameFrankfurt - Rwandan President Paul Kagame entered a German prison Tuesday to speak in a visiting area with his senior aide Rose Kabuye, who is being held on suspicion of murder.

She was upbeat and ready to face the French investigators, Kagame said after leaving the women's jail near Frankfurt.

Kabuye was arrested Sunday as she arrived in Germany to prepare for Kagame's arrival the following day.

The president was invited to Germany by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange company. Kagame gave a lecture to German business people Monday evening. He did not meet with German officials. Berlin says his visit is legally a private one.

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