Lawyers for the family of former Burkinabè President Thomas Sankara, assassinated during a putsch in 1987, demanded on Thursday the extradition of Blaise Compaoré, sentenced to life in this case and in exile in Côte d'Ivoire since 2014 This extradition is "a fight of the Burkinabè state, of the Burkinabè people", estimated Me Prosper Farama, during a press conference.
The UN has called on the Malian government to allow "imperative" access to the locality of Mour where the Malian army, assisted by foreign forces suspected of being linked to the Russian company Wagner, is accused of a massacre at the end of March.
The British human rights organization Minority Rights Group claims in a report published on Wednesday that soldiers and guards at Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern DR Congo have committed crimes against indigenous pygmy people living in the park.
We will be online with Julie Barrière is Legal Programs Coordinator with Minority Rights Group International.
Finally, Rwanda will commemorate this April 7 the 28th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide.
28 years later, the preservation of the archives of documents linked to 1994 and the testimonies of aging survivors becomes an issue for the memory of the last large-scale massacre of the 20th century.
The Ibuka organization takes this issue seriously and has launched an ambitious program to digitize these elements.
Report Simon Wohlfahrt.
Editor: Célia Caracena
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