President Paul Kagame on Monday, November 11 received a delegation led by the AU Special Envoy for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Adama Dieng, who is on a tour of eastern and Central Africa.
Dieng’s regional tour comes about six months after the African Union Commission Chairperson, Amb. Moussa Faki Mahamat, on April 7, announced his appointment as a AU special envoy, in line with avoiding a repeat of inaction observed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Faki made the announcement during the 30th commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
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The Senegalese jurist is a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, a position he held from July 2012 to July 2020.