BUJUMBURA, 17 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Health officials in Africa's Great Lakes region have agreed to set up regional monitoring networks and conduct joint mobilisation campaigns against epidemics in their countries. Full report

GHENT, 16 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Belgian Roman Catholic missionary Guy Theunis, who has been accused by Rwandan authorities of taking part in the 1994 genocide, has been awarded a peace prize. Full report

ARUSHA, TANZANIA, 16 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - The prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is seeking to have a genocide suspect tried in Norway.Full report

BUJUMBURA, 15 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Medical experts from Africa's Great Lakes region are meeting in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, to plan ways of countering epidemics in the region.Full report

KINSHASA, 9 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Rape is a serious offence that should be treated as a crime against humanity, alongside genocide and war crimes, representatives of women's organisations in Africa's Great Lakes region have proposed.Full report

ARUSHA, TANZANIA, 8 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - The Appeals Chamber of UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) confirmed on Wednesday a lower court's decision to acquit a former Rwandan transport minister and a former provincial governor of genocide, a decision the Rwandan government received with reservations.Full report

ARUSHA, TANZANIA, 6 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - An appeal against the acquittal of a former Rwandan minister by a lower court of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda began on Monday before its Appeals Chamber.Full report

KIGALI, 6 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - Local government elections began on Monday in Rwanda for 21,500 officials to head cells countrywide, the nation's lowest administrative units.Full report

THE HAGUE, 6 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - The International Court of Justice, the United Nations' principal judicial organ based in The Hague, has ruled that it lacks jurisdiction to consider an application filed in May 2002 by the Democratic Republic of the Congo against neighbouring Rwanda. Full report

BUJUMBURA, 31 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - A land dispute that resulted from a river changing its course due to heavy rains some 50 years ago continues to vex neighbouring agricultural...Full report

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