Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Sole survivor relives 2009 Yemenia Airways crash at French trial

Yemenia Airways crash

In the French trial against Yemenia Airways, a 12-year-old girl who survived the 2009 crash in the Comoros islands that killed all 152 people on board detailed the harrowing minutes leading up to her plummet into the water and subsequent miraculous rescue. Bahia Bakari, now 25, has sat through several hearings with her father but … Read more

Death of Rwanda genocide fugitive ‘loss to justice’: survivors

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The death of the last major fugitive wanted for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a “loss of justice,” according to the leading support group for genocide survivors. The United Nations on Thursday announced that Protais Mpiranya, who commanded a feared unit accused of targeted assassinations during the 100-day massacre in Rwanda, had … Read more