Former Rwandan minister put on trial for genocide in absentia News
Former Rwandan minister put on trial for genocide in absentia

[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [JURIST news archive; official website] put former Rwanda education minister Andre Rwamakuba on trial [official website] Thursday despite his refusal to attend the proceedings [official press release]. Rwamakuba is accused of making lists of Tutsi people to be killed and participated in killings himself; he is formally charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, extermination, and murder. He was arrested in October 1998 and is being held at a UN detention facility. Reuters has more.

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South Africa becomes first country on continent to legalize same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriages became legal in South Africa on November 30, 2006 as the country's Civil Union Act, 2006 went into effect, making South Africa the only country on the African continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Read the Civil Union Act, 2006.