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  • Burundi absence in AU summit sad—Mushikiwabo

    The Minister of Foreign Affairs,Louise Mushikiwabo has said Burundi’s actions of shunning the 27th African Union Summit are sad and worrying, for the neighboring country missed out on working with peers in finding sustainable solutions to the country’s challenges.

    At the beginning of the 27th AU summit in Kigali, Burundi called back some of its diplomats who had already arrived in Rwanda to attend the meeting, including Burundi’s ambassador to African Union and two other envoys that had been sent by the ministry of foreign affairs who were called to return back as the summit continued.

    Talking to the press yesterday the Rwanda’s minister of foreign affairs,Louise Mushikiwabo said that it is sad to see the absence of Burundi in the concluded great AU summit which came up with relevant resolutions.

    “The absence of Burundi in the summit is worrying. We know no reason behind it but we know that at the beginning of the AU summit representatives of Burundi went back to their country,” she said.

    As the African Union summit was held in Kigali, a Burundi diplomat Hafsa Mossi who represented Burundi in East Africa Legislative Assembly was killed on July 13th 2016.
    Following her death, Mushikiwabo expressed grief over her death.

    Talking to the media yesterday, Mushikiwabo said that Burundi’s situation worries both Rwanda and Africa in general. “We are following up the matter of Burundi in the East African Community. We wish much success to Burundians,” she said.

    The Burundi’s foreign affairs minister, Willy Nyamitwe told the press that security uncertainties for their envoys were among causes of withdrawal from the AU summit.

    The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo

  • Turkey: Evidence given to US of Gulen’s ‘role’ in coup

    PM Binali Yildirim says evidence has been sent to US for arrest of exiled cleric, as detentions and dismissals continue.

    Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced that the United States has been given evidence of exiled opposition leader Fethullah Gulen’s “involvement” in the failed coup, as he warned that further “criminal activity will be forcefully dealt with”.

    In an address on Tuesday before members of his party in parliament, Yildirim denounced the “despicable” and “cowardly” coup plotters, whom he said were being “directed by a cleric” from abroad, referring to Gulen.

    “The power of the tank has not been able to overcome the power of the people,” he said, adding that all those involved in the coup will be “severely punished”.

    Turks pessimistic about future after coup attempt

    Yildirim did not say whether the evidence provided by the Turkish government to the US constitutes a formal extradition request.

    But later on Tuesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Turkish government had filed materials in electronic form with the US government, which were in review.

    Ankara had earlier demanded Washington hand Gulen over to Turkish authorities.

    Gulen, who is resident in the US, has denied any involvement in the military plot to topple the government of President Recep Tayipp Erdogan, and hinted that the coup might have been staged to justify his arrest.

    Yildirim’s speech came as the government detains government workers, including police officers, members of the civil service and the judiciary.

    Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith, reporting from Istanbul, said as many as 20,000 government employees have been detained, or are being pursued by the authorities, including 185 admirals and colonels, and 1,500 finance ministry officials.

    Reuters also reported that 257 personnel from the prime minister’s own office have also been removed from duty.

    Turkey’s Education Ministry on Tuesday suspended 15,200 personnel in connection with the failed coup, state media reported. Later, the High Education Board ordered the resignation of all 1,577 deans employed at all universities, TRT reported.

    Turkey’s religious directorate issued a statement on Tuesday, saying it would not offer religious funerary services, including funeral prayers, for soldiers involved in the failed coup attempt, except for those who had been “forcibly dragged” into the military actions attempting to overthrow the government.

    ‘Serious alarm’

    Yildirim said that the government will make a major announcement on Wednesday in response to the coup attempt.

    He did not specify what action the government would take, but earlier on Tuesday, President Erdogan said he is ready to reinstate the death penalty.

    “There is no time to rest,” Yildirim said to cheers from party colleagues. “There is a group of people who are going to be punished.”

    A top United Nations human rights official urged Turkey to uphold the rule of law, and voiced “serious alarm” at the mass suspension of judges and prosecutors.

    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein also called for independent observers to visit places of detention in Turkey to check on conditions, and for detainees to have access to lawyers and their families.

    “In the aftermath of such a traumatic experience, it is particularly crucial to ensure that human rights are not squandered in the name of security and in the rush to punish those perceived to be responsible,” Zeid said in a statement.

    “Reintroduction of the death penalty would be in breach of Turkey’s obligations under international human rights law – a big step in the wrong direction,” he said.

    The European Union has also warned that Turkey’s accession to the European Union would halted if the death penalty is reinstated.

    Yildirim said coup plotters, whom he said were linked to Gulen, were 'cowardly' and 'despicable'

  • Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe lambasts #ThisFlag pastor Evan Mawarire

    Zimbabwe’s president has lambasted a pastor behind the #ThisFlag social media campaign that denounces the government’s management of the economy.

    Robert Mugabe said that Evan Mawarire was not a true preacher and accused him of being sponsored by foreign countries bent on destabilising Zimbabwe.

    The pastor backed a stay-at-home strike earlier this month, one of the largest anti-government protests in years.

    He was arrested last week, but released when a court threw out the charges.

    His lawyers successfully argued that the charge of subversion, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 year, had been added at the last minute, denying him a fair trial.

    Mr Mawarire was first charged with inciting public violence despite the fact that he has called on Zimbabweans to take a peaceful stand against unemployment and corruption and avoided directly criticising the president.

    The BBC’s Brian Hungwe in the capital, Harare, says Mr Mugabe was in his usual no-nonsense mood when he attacked his new-found nemesis.

    In his first comments about the #ThisFlag movement that began several months ago, he said that if people like Mr Mawarire did not like living in Zimbabwe, they should go to “the countries of those who are sponsoring them”.

    “A man of religion will speak the biblical truth. 1 Corinthians what does it say? Love one another,” the president said during his address to thousands of mourners at the funeral of Charles Utete, the country’s first black cabinet secretary.

    “So beware these men of cloth, not all of them are true preachers of the Bible.”

    To reiterate his point, the 92-year-old president said he was not sure which God such charlatans served.

    “I don’t know whether they are serving God… we spell God double G.O.D, they spell God in reverse,” he said to cheers from the crowd.

    The pastor is currently in South Africa, but has denied reports that he fled to seek asylum, the Associated Press news agency reports.

    Mr Mawarire has struck a chord with many Zimbabweans through his campaign, organised via Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, our reporter says.

    Its success is not surprising given the mood of despair and anger over alleged government corruption, the chronic shortage of money and the heavy police presence on streets, he says.

    Evan Mawarire urges Zimbabweans to voice their criticisms and demand accountability

  • Game over: Why Kazibwe lost African Union vote

    The former vice president whose bid government supported with Shs1b was knocked out in the first round when she won only 10 votes against 12 and 16 for her rivals.

    Africa’s political executives yesterday opened up the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson race to new entrants after abstention by 16 West Africa states under their umbrella group, ECOWAS, deprived the three contenders of an outright win.
    A winner, according to the rules, should garner at least two-thirds of the votes by the 53 members, excluding Morocco which is just making a comeback to the continental body.
    Uganda’s candidate Dr Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, a former Vice President, whose bid the government supported with Shs1 billion, was knocked out in the first round after she tailed with 11 votes. Her rivals Pelomi Venson-Moitoi of Botswana and Equatorial Guinea’s Agapito Mba Mokuy garnered 16 and 12 votes, respectively.

    The voting was moved from Sunday to yesterday morning as the first agenda for the day after a last-minute attempt by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to defer the elections was thwarted.

    Insiders told this newspaper that the eventual lead candidate, Botswana’s Dr Pelomi Venson-Moitoi, during the fourth and last round, polled 23 votes, which, although the highest, still fell below the 35-vote threshold to bag the job currently held by South Africa’s Dlamini Zuma.

    Ms Zuma is expected to remain in-charge for the next six months, but could throw her hat back in the ring if yesterday’s failure to find a suitable replacement buoys her to change her mind and seek re-election.

    Mr Jacob Enoh Eben, the spokesperson of the AUC chairperson, tweeted that: “‘Black smoke billows’ from the 27th AU summit as no winner emerges,” referencing a popular Vatican phrase when voting by cardinals in a conclave for a new Pope is inconclusive.

    “Elections were suspended as abstention by Ecowas group [meant] no candidate could get two-thirds majority required,” Uganda’s Foreign Affairs ministry Permanent Secretary James Mugume told this newspaper from Rwanda, host of the 27th ordinary AU summit.

    Mr Mugume, however, said it was premature to count Dr Kazibwe out and defeated because, according to him, “the first vote only reflects group strengths”. “It is possible,” the PS noted, “to start third and win when the groups become more flexible. All candidates remain in the race, including Dr Wandira.”

    A senior diplomat told this newspaper that whereas the law allows Uganda to re-nominate Dr Kazibwe for the voting rescheduled for January 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; doing so after yesterday’s poor show, would diminish the country’s chances and complicate galvanising regional endorsement for her candidature. A more pragmatic option, the source suggested, would be for Kampala to front another more accomplished contestant.

    We were unable to speak directly to Dr Kazibwe, who remained holed up in a nearby hotel room after losing in early voting that the heads of State conducted through secret ballot at the new imposing Kigali Convention Centre.

    Ms Sarah Kagingo, the campaign spokesperson, however, said the ex-vice president was “upbeat”. “She has always said this was not [a case of] ‘us against them’ because we are all Africans,” Ms Kagingo said.

    Uganda government officials had been optimistic Dr Kazibwe would perform better than it turned out after Kampala made available to her substantial resources, enabling her to criss-cross the continent to court heads of states and governments in meetings followed by photo opportunities.
    Prior to the start of the AU Heads of State Summit in Kigali, ECOWAS reportedly filed a motion of request to have the elections deferred on grounds that the regional bloc intended to present a candidate. The request, a source said, was brought forward for debate but AU chairman and Chadian President Idriss Deby, overruled it.

    The summit consulted the AU legal counsel, Prof Vincent Nmehielle, who advised that the nominations were conducted in line with the AU’s Constitutive Act, with candidates presented and vetted by independent experts before endorsement by the Council of Foreign Affairs ministers.

    Ecowas, alleged to be behind a campaign that the final three candidates were not of the right pedigree to lead the continental bloc, was faulted for choosing to ambush the summit with last-minute demands spearheaded by Senegal President Mackay Sall, including for postponement of the vote.

    Ivory Coast and Senegal led the Ecowas campaign to postpone the election and when they failed, Senegal presented its former Foreign Affairs minister. He could, however, not be accepted because nominations were already closed. Chairman Deby allowed the voting to proceed.

    Shortly after the inconclusive vote, Uganda Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kutesa in a statement issued in Kigali, noted: “The candidates who competed in this election are eligible to run, but the competition will also be opened to other candidates who might be interested and have necessary qualifications.”

    Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kuteesa (right) presents Uganda’s former vice president Specioza Wandira Kazibwe to the delegates at the AU Heads of State Summit in Kigali.

  • South Sudan conflict tops African summit agenda

    Fresh fighting in South Sudan’s capital has killed hundreds of people and forced thousands to flee their homes.

    Renewed fighting in South Sudan that has killed more than 300 people is set to dominate an African Union summit that starts in the Rwandan capital of Kigali on Sunday.

    A shaky ceasefire has held since late on Monday after fighting raged for four days in the South Sudanese capital of Juba, forcing 40,000 people to flee their homes.

    The violence echoed fighting that triggered the civil war and marks a fresh blow to last year’s deal to end a bitter conflict that began when President Salva Kiir accused ex-rebel and now Vice President Riek Machar of plotting a coup.

    The unrest has also plunged into doubt a peace deal signed in August 2015.

    Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi, reporting from Juba, said the ceasefire appeared to be holding but there was a sense of uncertainty in the city.

    Locals, she said, were wondering about the whereabouts of Machar, who has been in hiding.

    “What is certain is that he has not left the country,” Soi said. “But he says he still feels his life is in danger and until his safety is guaranteed he will not come out.”

    Speaking to regional grouping IGAD in Kigali on Saturday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said a “critical stage” in the South Sudan crisis had been reached.

    “Now is the time to send a strong message to the South Sudanese leadership,” he said.

    “The people of South Sudan have been let down by their own leadership.Their hopes and dreams have been tarnished at the expense of warring parties enriching and empowering themselves. We cannot and will not tolerate this.”

    Leadership crisis

    The AU will also seek to hammer out a solution to a crisis engulfing Burundi, where a spate of killings have rocked the country since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term.

    Also on the crowded agenda will be the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram armed group that has its roots in northern Nigeria but has carried out attacks across the Lake Chad region.

    Recent violent incidents in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are also expected to feature in the talks.

    Efforts to secure peace in the South Sudan and elsewhere, however, will be complicated by divisions over who should succeed Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as chair of the AU’s new commission.

    Several countries on the continent have indicated that they do not back any of the leading candidates for the job, arguing that they lack stature.

    Now all three of the leading candidates – Botswana’s Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, her Guinean opposite number Agapito Mba Mokuy and Uganda’s former vice president Specioza Wandira-Kazibwe look like they may fail to get a majority of votes from the African Union’s 54 members.

    If that happens the vote could be abandoned and re-run at the next AU summit in January 2017.

    Conflict in South Sudan has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes

  • Morocco seeks to rejoin African Union after 32 years

    Morocco has formally announced its wish to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after leaving the organisation.

    In a message to the AU summit in Rwanda, the Moroccan King Mohammed VI said the time had come for his country to retake its place within its institutional family.
    Morocco left the AU in 1984, after the organisation recognised the independence of Western Sahara.

    Moroccans describe Western Sahara as their country’s “southern provinces”.
    For more than three decades, Morocco has refused to be part of the organisation.
    In March, it threatened to pull its soldiers out of UN global peacekeeping missions because of the dispute.

    Now, the Moroccan authorities seem to have concluded their absence hasn’t helped them diplomatically over Western Sahara and many other issues, says the BBC’s Africa Reporter James Copnall.

    They sent a special envoy to lobby African leaders at their summit in the Rwandan capital Kigali this weekend.

    The AU has said that it will continue pushing for the rights of the people of Western Sahara to hold a self-determination referendum.

    Morocco is the only African country which is not an AU member.

    Last month Morocco's King Mohammed VI met Rwandan President Paul Kagame, whose country is hosting the AU summit

  • Museveni feeling insecure – Besigye

    The Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, has said President Museveni’s roadside phone conversation last week is a sign that he is besieged and insecure.

    The Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, has said President Museveni’s roadside phone conversation last week is a sign that he is besieged and insecure.

    A picture showing President Museveni seated by the roadside in Kyeirumba, Isingiro District on July 11, speaking on phone went viral on social media platforms.

    In the picture released last Tuesday, the day Dr Besigye was granted bail after spending 62 days in Luzira prison over treason charges, President Museveni’s entourage is seen standing at a distance.

    Dr Besigye said the President is insecure to the extent of not trusting his driver and bodyguard.

    “Mr Museveni is now besieged. He is surrounded by soldiers but feels he is surrounded by enemies,” Dr Besigye said. “He must have suspected cameras in his car. How could he run from his car and sit on the roadside to make a call?” Dr Besigye asked.

    The four-time presidential candidate was addressing journalists at the residence of former Bushenyi FDC chairman William Mukaira in Bushenyi Town on Saturday.
    Dr Besigye also slammed the President for blocking Ugandans from using roads whenever he hosts foreign visitors, saying the President is now hell-bent on stopping his visitors from seeing those he leads. “He is now a president of guns. Time will come when the gun will lose power to the people,” Dr Besigye said.

    He said the multiple charges against him are intended to persecute and weaken him politically so that he gives up, adding: “I am now reloaded to start afresh with the struggle to bring power into the hands of the citizens.”

    He blasted police for “terrorising” Ugandans who pay their salaries.
    Police trailed Dr Besigye from Mbarara to Bushenyi where he had planned to make a stop-over in Bumbaire Sub-county to lay a wreath on the grave of the late Mary Kasande, the former Bushenyi District FDC electoral chairperson, who was buried last Wednesday. However, Dr Besigye was blocked by police.

    He gave the wreath to the district FDC leaders and drove through Bushenyi Town followed by his supporters as he proceeded to his home in Rukungiri.
    Mr John Muramya, who claimed leadership of the head of the family where Kasande belonged, earlier in the morning, told journalists at Bushenyi police they would not welcome Dr Besigye because the relatives to Kasande do not belong to the Opposition.

  • US election: ‘Trump to name Mike Pence as running mate’

    Mike Pence was a US congressman for more than a decade and is a member of the conservative Tea Party movement.

    Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump is expected to name Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate on Friday, Roll Call news site reported.

    An anonymous source said Trump is going to select Pence, 57, a former US congressman, as his vice presidential nominee, Roll Call, a Washington-based organisation that reports on the politics of Capitol Hill, reported on Thursday.

    Al Jazeera could not independently confirm the report.

    The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will officially announce his choice on Friday at 11am (15:00 GMT) in Manhattan.

    Trump is to be formally nominated as the party’s candidate for the November 8 election at the Republican National Convention next week in Cleveland. Traditionally, the vice presidential choice is used to build enthusiasm among party loyalists.

    Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett, reporting from Washington DC, said: “All signs indicate that it will be the Indiana governor, Mike Pence. He has an awful lot of experience that Donald Trump doesn’t have.”

    Our correspondent added that Trump, a former reality television star and businessman, does not have the governing or legislative experience that Pence possesses.

    “Pence has served in congress for six terms.That complements Donald Trump’s resume, making him more appealing to voters,” she said.

    Donald Trump’s dangerous demagoguery

    Trump’s choice of running mate is seen as critical because his defeat of 16 rivals in the Republican primary race left the party divided. Some party leaders are still uneasy about some of his campaign positions, and his style.

    Roll Call said Trump was reportedly impressed with Pence’s calm demeanour, his experience on Capitol Hill and as a governor, and Pence’s potential to assist in governing if Trump wins in November. Trump, a New York businessman, has never held elected office.

    Trump had also considered former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as finalists.

    Gingrich told an ABC News correspondent earlier that he expected to hear Trump’s decision soon and would not be surprised if Pence was selected.

    Pence is seen as a safe choice, not too flashy but popular among conservatives, with Midwestern appeal and the ability to rally more party faithful behind Trump.

    Pence had backed a Trump rival, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, in April before the Indiana primary, but he praised Trump and said he would work on behalf of the eventual Republican nominee.

    He is currently seeking re-election as governor of Indiana, a US midwest state. Indiana law prevents him from seeking two offices at once, and he faces a Friday deadline to withdraw from the governor’s race.

    Testing Chemistry

    Pence and Trump spent time this month testing their chemistry at Trump’s golf course in New Jersey and at the governor’s residence in Indiana, Roll Call said.

    He had considered running for president himself in 2016 before deciding to run for re-election as governor. Conservatives had urged him to seek the White House, but missteps in 2015 related to an Indiana law seen as anti-gay hurt his national profile.

    2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney accuses Trump of promoting ‘trickle-down racism’
    This year, he was the target of a mocking social media campaign by women outraged at a law he signed which added restrictions on abortions. Feeling that the law invaded their privacy, women responded by calling Pence’s office to describe their menstrual periods or tweeting similar messages.

    Pence ran unsuccessfully for Congress twice before he was elected to the House of Representatives in 2000, where he was chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group of conservatives.

    Flurry of meetings

    In what has been an unusually public process of making his choice of running mate, Trump, 70, met both Pence and Gingrich separately in Indianapolis on Wednesday.

    He also met with a fourth potential running mate , US Senator Jeff Sessions. The 69-year-old of Alabama has been one of Trump’s closest advisers.

    Trump had dinner with Pence on Tuesday night after they appeared together at a rally.

    Trump adviser Ed Brookover told CNN that “first and foremost” Trump wants a running mate who he has good chemistry with and someone who can help him govern best.

    Indiana Governor Mike Pence served as a member of Congress from 2001 to 2013

  • Congo election likely to be delayed – U.N. mission chief

    KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo is unlikely to hold a presidential election as scheduled in November, the U.N. head of mission there said on Thursday, something that U.N. experts have warned could trigger violent political unrest.

    President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, is bound by term limits to step down after having won elections in 2006 and 2011, but opponents accuse him of deliberately delaying the Nov. 27 poll to cling to power.

    “I do not see the elections (taking place) on Nov. 27,” U.N. mission chief Maman Sidikou told a news conference in Kinshasa.

    In March, the U.N. Security Council called on the country to organise the election this year, but the government says logistical and budgetary obstacles make it unrealistic. The election commission has said it needs more than a year to update voter rolls.

    The country’s highest court ruled in May that Kabila would remain in power until the election is held.

    “It is the Congolese who will decide when the elections will take place,” Sidikou said.

    He urged political leaders to join a national dialogue called for by Kabila but which has been boycotted by leading opposition parties.

    The largest opposition party, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, said this week that its president, 83-year-old Etienne Tshisekedi, would return to Congo to attend a July 31 rally and participate in an eventual dialogue.

    Tshisekedi, the runner-up to Kabila in the 2011 election that observers said was tainted by widespread fraud, has been in Belgium since August 2014 receiving medical treatment.

  • We won’t arrest Sudan’s Bashir—Rwanda

    The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, has said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) request to Rwanda to arrest Sudan’s president Omar Al Hassan Bashir two days ago has been ignored.

    President Omar Al Bahir has confirmed he will attend the 27th African Union Summit that kicked off on 10th July to end on 18th July 2016.

    The session of presidents who confirmed attendance of the AU summit will start from July 17th to July 18th, 2016 along with former presidents, ambassadors from AU, foreign affairs ministers and various organizations from Africa.

    In a press briefing yesterday, Minister Mushikiwabo s aid that Rwanda has no obligation to arrest president Bashir.

    “It is a simple problem. Rwanda received African leaders invited by African Union and all invited guests will be here in Kigali. He is welcomed and this country will ensure his security. President Bashir is a president of an African country; he was invited and will attend this summit. As a host country we will receive whoever,” she said.

    “ Secondly ,Rwanda didn’t sign Rome statute ,so it doesn’t have rights to arrest whoever .We have considered the ICC request as an intention of distracting us. We have been very busy to the extent that we could not find time for that,” she said.

    The AU members are contemplating leaving the ICC.

    “Leaving ICC is their right. Countries signed membership voluntarily .I think they can leave through any process granted by Rome statute,” said Mushikiwabo.

    She said that declining to arrest Bahir doesn’t mean supporting impunity as a country which experienced genocide.

    “Let’s say that International justice is political. Rwanda as a member of African Union, we respect its decisions by all means. It requested UN Security Council immunity for in service presidents alleged of crimes till their tenure expires. We greatly respect guidelines of African heads of states,” she said.

    Mushikiwabo said that Rwanda doesn’t support impunity but has to be cautious on politicized justice.

    ICC placed an arrest warrant for president Bashir for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Darfur since 2003.

    ICC released the first arrest warrant of Bashir on March ,2009 followed by the next released arrest warrants of 2010.He is hunted along with the governor of Northern Kordofan state, Ahmed Haroun who was the Minister of Security at the time of violence.

    Mushikiwabo said that ICC entered politics other than international justice.
    “It can’t be explained how only Africans are pursued by the court for 15 years,” she said.

    Mushikiwabo explained that powerful countries of the world manipulate ICC noting that African countries must avoid crimes punished by the court .She added that Africa is strengthening capacities of Senegal based African court which has recently held the trial of Hissene Habre,former Tchad president.

    The Minister of Foreign Affairs,Louise Mushikiwabo said that Rwanda doesn’t support impunity but has to be cautious on politicized justice.