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Alphonse Muleefu

Dr. Alphonse Muleefu is a Senior Lecturer – UR School of Law and author of The Independence of the International Criminal Court: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Intersentia, 2019). He is a Rwandan national.

How Rwanda dodged the bullet of international NGOs

Alphonse Muleefu Sep 4, 2021

I previously had high hopes in the role of International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs) in bringing about positive change. However, the more I interacted with them and reflected on their reporting on Rwanda, especially when it comes…
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Why Won’t Rusesabagina’s Supporters Recognize the Humanity of his Victims?

Alphonse Muleefu Aug 24, 2021

I had no intention of writing again on this ongoing case of Mr Paul Rusesabagina and others, but since his family and supporters are interested in keeping it on the front burner of the media, I guess we should all help them to achieve it.…
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Rusesabagina Trial: Why we should give judicial independence a chance

Alphonse Muleefu Mar 3, 2021

It is now clear that Paul Rusesabagina was lured into a trap of arrest. This is how the operation went. A Burundian pastor, allegedly Rusesabagina’s accomplice (or a friend as Rusesabagina believed) had invited him to Burundi to speak to…
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You Brit hypocrites! First take the log out of your own eye

Alphonse Muleefu Feb 5, 2021

On 28 January 2021, the UK government announced that it was starting to refuse entry to people who have been to or transited through different countries including Rwanda, in its efforts to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Rwandans were…
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Judicial Activism at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Alphonse Muleefu Dec 9, 2020

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereafter the Court) is responsible for ensuring that there is respect of human and peoples’ rights on the African Continent. The Court has both a contentious jurisdiction (resolving disputes…
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An official who embezzles funds for a hospital has indirectly committed murder

Alphonse Muleefu Sep 8, 2020

My recent exchanges with some lawyers in town on the fact that corruption offences are imprescriptible in Rwanda seemed to raise some concerns, which I think needed some more explaining. First, it appeared to me that some individuals do…
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Laundry Day – RPF efforts to create a virtuous society

Alphonse Muleefu Jul 10, 2020

On Friday 26 June 2020, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) held its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in which some non-members were invited, and it is from those (non-members) that those of us who were not invited got to know…
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Félicien Kabuga Trial: Can the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals do better…

Alphonse Muleefu May 21, 2020

On 16 May 2020, the world was awash with the news that the most wanted fugitive suspected of financing the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi was arrested. The arrest of Félicien Kabuga in Paris, France, has raised a lot of questions…
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Thinking beyond the Office of the Prosecutor

Alphonse Muleefu Apr 15, 2020

From the 2nd of August 2019, the conversation among people with interest in International Criminal Justice is the ongoing search for a new Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (hereafter the Court or ICC). The mandate of Ms…
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Pan African Review

Pan African Review is a platform that challenges assumptions about Africa and a space for introspective perspectives on matters of concern to Africans.