Burkina Faso: ex-president Kaboré transferred to his home, still under surveillance

Overthrown by a putsch at the end of January and since placed under house arrest, the former president of Burkina Faso has returned to his home in Ouagadougou.

But according to his party, the People’s Movement for Progress, Roch Marc Kaboré still suffers “restrictions of freedom”. Details from Kalidou Sy, France 24 correspondent in Ouagadougou.

Lawyers for the family of former Burkinabe President Thomas Sankara, assassinated during a putsch in 1987, demanded Thursday, April 7, the extradition of Blaise Compaoré, who was 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 Moura where the Malian army, assisted by foreign forces suspected of being linked to the Russian company Wagner, is accused of having perpetrated a massacre at the end of March.

The British human rights organization Minority Rights Group International says in a report published on Wednesday (April 6th) that soldiers and guards at Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern DR Congo have committed crimes against indigenous Batwa Pygmy people living in the park. Julie Barrière, coordinator of legal programs at Minority Rights Group International, presents the content of this survey.

Rwanda commemorates, this Thursday, April 7, the 28th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide. 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 has launched an ambitious program to digitize these elements. The report by Simon Wohlfahrt.