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[AfricaRealities.com] The Pope and Migrants

  __._,_.___ Posted by: Africa Realities <africarealities@gmail.com> Reply via web post • Reply to sender • Reply to group • Start a New Topic • Messages in this topic (1) Save time and get your email on the go with the Yahoo Mail App Get the beautifully designed, lighting ...
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[AfricaRealities.com] Petitioning the President of Rwanda Paul KAGAME: Free Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA the rwandan opposition leader.

  http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/en/liberte-pour-la-prisonniere-politique-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-petition-a-signer/ Petitioning the President of Rwanda Paul KAGAME: Free Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA the rwandan opposition leader MARCH 21, 2016     Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza denounced persisting lack of accountability for the events that led to the tragedy that befell Rwanda as well as the discrimination between the victims of genocide and widespread killings in Rwanda. This quest for truth and justice raised an outcry in the circles close to power. Thus, in late 2013 she was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a sham trial. When Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza lodged her complaint to the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, in Arusha, Tanzania to appeal against her politically motivated trial, the Government of Rwanda, after trying a series of strategies to prevent the applicant from appearing before this Court, ende...
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Attentats de Bruxelles : témoignages juste après les explosions

    Visualisez cet email dans votre navigateur   Belgique Attentats de Bruxelles : témoignages juste après les explosions Belgique Les images des attentats de Bruxelles Iran Non, l’organisation Etat islamique n’a pas menacé les Iraniens en vacances en Turquie Congo brazzaville En images : "Je vote, je reste", tensions dans des bureaux de vote du Congo-Brazzaville LES OBSERVATEURS SUR LE WEB Rejoignez -nous sur Suivez -nous sur À propos des Observateurs Les Observateurs est un site participatif qui relaie les vidéos, photos et opinions des témoins directs de l'actualité : VOUS Lire la suite LES OBSERVATEURS À LA TÉLÉ Retrouvez la dernière émission des Observateurs FRANCE 2...
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[AfricaRealities.com] Fw: *DHR* Why Rwandan Food Refugees Are Moving To Uganda In Increasing Numbers

  On Monday, 21 March 2016, 6:44, "itwagira71 itwagira71@gmail.com [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr> wrote:   Why Rwandan Food Refugees Are Moving To Uganda In Increasing Numbers https://medium.com/@dhimbara/why-rwandan-food-refugees-are-moving-to-uganda-in-increasing-numbers-ddabcf424ee3#.jr2dbboo2 Why Rwandan Food Refugees Are Moving To Uganda In Increasing Numbers Lecturing at Harvard about "Singapore of Africa" Dead crops While King Paul is mostly overseas these days lecturing how he has built the Singapore of Africa, back home, people are hurting. Massive crop failure has struck hard in Nyagatare District —  Voice of America  has captured this disaster in a revealing documentary about food refugees crossing into Uganda. We know what the Kagame regime will do: Deny that the problem exists, or blame the weather. The o...
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[AfricaRealities.com] Fw: Has Besigye become Uganda’s Assange?

  Has Besigye become Uganda's Assange?   Hearings at Uganda's Supreme Court continue on Wednesday with members of the opposition contesting the recent presidential election results. However, a leading member of Uganda's opposition is conspicuously absent. Kizza Besigye, leader of the Forum for Democratic Change party, has been under house arrest for almost four weeks since the announcement of results. "We have now filed a case in the Uganda high court, seeking to enforce my rights," Besigye told RFI, referring to his continued house arrest. "We have not yet received a hearing date for that application," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Kasangati, just outside of Kampala. In the run-up to Uganda's 18 February election, Besigye was detained several times. He was taken to police stations or his home on a number of occasions, but Ugandan authorities have never filed any charges, ac...
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[AfricaRealities.com] Fw: *DHR* How President Kagame Sacrificed women during the 1990-1994 war? (by Jeanne Umulisa, a former RPA officer).

  On Monday, 21 March 2016, 17:18, "Innocent TWAGIRAMUNGU itwagira71@gmail.com [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr> wrote:   How President Kagame Sacrificed women during the 1990-1994 war? Jeanne Umulisa is a former RPA officer.   http://glpost.com/how-president-kagame-sacrificed-women-during-the-1990-1994-war/ via @greatlakespost How President Kagame Sacrificed women during the 1990-1994 war? March 19, 2016   Analysis In summary: Rwanda's fallacious women empowerment and how the RPA sacrificed women combatants in the struggle: There is no country that divides the world opinion as Rwanda; A success model of post-conflict recovery yet a renowned repressive police state at the same time. Prime of what makes Rwanda a global star is a facade of women emancipation, but as Lieutenant Jeanne Umulisa;...
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