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RWANDAN POLICE ARREST DIANE RWIGARA, FAMILY MEMBERS


Police in Rwanda have arrested Diane Shima Rwigara, a prominent government critic, charging her with forgery and tax evasion... READ MORE

5th September, 2017 122

PAUL KAGAME RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT WITH 99% OF VOTE IN RWANDA ELECTION


Paul Kagame re-elected president with 99 percent of vote in Rwanda election... READ MORE

6th August, 2017 3993

RWANDA LEADER WINS 3RD TERM IN VOTE HE CALLED 'A FORMALITY'


Kagame has already addressed jubilant supporters at party headquarters and urged Rwandans, including those who hadn't supported him, to work together... READ MORE

5th August, 2017 0

IN LANDSLIDE, RWANDA LEADER KAGAME WINS THIRD TERM WITH AROUND 98% OF VOTES


KIGALI - President Paul Kagame sailed to a third term in office with a tally hovering around a whopping 98 percent of votes, partial results showed Saturday... READ MORE

5th August, 2017 0

PAUL KAGAME WINS PRESIDENTIAL POLL BY A LANDSLIDE


He has overseen strong economic growth, at an average of 8 percent between 2001 and 2015, while also turning Rwanda into a technological hub and uprooting corruption... READ MORE

5th August, 2017 1753

KAGAME POISED FOR ANOTHER TERM AS RWANDA POLLS CLOSE


According to the Rwanda Electoral Commission, more than 80 percent of registered voters cast their ballots... READ MORE

4th August, 2017 528

RWANDA VOTE EXPECTED TO EXTEND KAGAME'S RULE


READ MORE Peace Clubs Rwanda's post-genocide search for renewal At some polling stations, traditional and modern songs were played over loudspeakers encouraging people to vote... READ MORE

4th August, 2017 89

PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME WINS BY LANDSLIDE


Rwanda election President Paul Kagame wins by landslide... READ MORE

4th August, 2017 1267

THIS AFRICAN NATION TRANSFORMED ITSELF FROM A KILLING FIELD TO A TOURIST MECCA. HERE'S HOW


Here's how President Paul Kagame, who assumed power in 2000, is running for a third term and faces two challengers... READ MORE

3rd August, 2017 160

RWANDA VOTE A FORMALITY WITH KAGAME SET TO EXTEND PRESIDENCY


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3rd August, 2017 21

KAGAME SEEMS SET TO WIN AGAIN IN RWANDA. BUT IS HE A 'MIRACLE MAN' OR A NASCENT DICTATOR?


Rwandans will rarely even say Hutu or Tutsi out loud... READ MORE

2nd August, 2017 167

PROFILES OF INCUMBENT KAGAME AND HIS TWO CONTENDERS


On 22 April 2000 Paul Kagame took the oath of office as President of the Republic of Rwanda after being elected by the Transitional National Assembly... READ MORE

31st July, 2017 14

RWANDAN ACADEMIC GETS LIFE IN JAIL FOR 1994 GENOCIDE


KIGALI, Rwanda AP -- A prominent Rwandan academic has been sentenced to life in jail after being convicted of genocide, officials said Saturday... READ MORE

15th July, 2017 9

FRENCH BANK BNP PARIBAS ACCUSED OF COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE


The genocide in the tiny central African country claimed 800,000 lives, mostly from Rwanda's ethnic Tutsi minority, between April and July 1994... READ MORE

29th June, 2017 154

NGOS FILE RWANDA GENOCIDE LAWSUIT AGAINST FRENCH BANK BNP PARIBAS


The four-month genocide led to the massacre of about 800,000 people, mostly from Rwanda's Tutsi minority... READ MORE

29th June, 2017 0

NGOS FILE RWANDA GENOCIDE LAWSUIT AGAINST FRENCH BANK BNP PARIBAS


The four-month genocide led to the massacre of about 800,000 people, mostly from Rwanda's Tutsi minority... READ MORE

29th June, 2017 0

NGOS FILE RWANDA GENOCIDE LAWSUIT AGAINST FRENCH BANK BNP


Kigali has repeatedly accused Paris of having a hand in the genocide and of being slow to prosecute some of its kingpins living in France... READ MORE

29th June, 2017 0

CHINA DONATES TO RWANDAN CHILDREN EDUCATION FUND


The Chinese Embassy in Rwanda on Friday made donation to a local organization, Imbuto Foundation, to support the latter's efforts in helping children from vulnerable backgrounds... READ MORE

24th June, 2017 2

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THOUSANDS OF WOMEN WERE RAPED DURING RWANDA'S GENOCIDE. NOW THEIR KIDS ARE COMING OF AGE.


Rwandan government leaders had commanded the majority population, the Hutus, to exterminate the Tutsis... READ MORE

12th June, 2017 11642

POPE APOLOGISES FOR CHURCH'S ROLE IN RWANDA GENOCIDE


About half of Rwandans are Catholic, but since the genocide many have turned to pentecostal churches... READ MORE

21st March, 2017 8290

CATHOLIC BISHOPS APOLOGISE FOR ROLE IN RWANDA GENOCIDE


The Catholic Church in Rwanda has apologised for its role in the 1994 genocide, saying it regrets the actions of those who participated in the massacres... READ MORE

21st November, 2016 7533

RWANDANS CARRY ON SIDE BY SIDE TWO DECADES AFTER GENOCIDE


Rwandans Carry On, Side by Side, Two Decades After Genocide... READ MORE

25th April, 2017 2237

RWANDAN SPY CHIEF KARENZI KARAKE ARRESTED IN LONDON


Rwanda's intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, who is wanted in Spain for war crimes, has been arrested in London... READ MORE

22nd June, 2015 1403

UK DISMISSES RWANDA SPY CHIEF CASE


Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said she was delighted that Gen Karake was returning to Rwanda... READ MORE

10th August, 2015 1175

ORPHANAGE FOUNDER FROM AFRICA WINS PRIZE IN MEMORY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE


Ms. Barankitse was born in Burundi, a central African nation where a tumultuous ethnic conflict pit her people, the Tutsis, against the Hutus... READ MORE

25th April, 2016 911

VOICES FROM BURUNDI SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES


Ms. Nivyabandi also fled Burundi in 1993, when civil war erupted after soldiers from the country's Tutsi minority assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority... READ MORE

20th July, 2015 904

BURUNDI HOLDS ELECTIONS AFTER NIGHT OF GUNFIRE


At a half-dozen polling stations, only a trickle of people were seen voting, pressing an ink-stained thumb on a ballot... READ MORE

29th June, 2015 672

BURUNDI EYES RWANDA WITH SUSPICION


Instead, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda said Mr. Nkurunziza should not run again because he had failed his people, a remark that angered Burundian officials... READ MORE

3rd August, 2015 614

FEAR STALKS BURUNDI AS BESIEGED REGIME TURNS TO TORTURE


Victims say president Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to turn Hutus against Tutsis as protests continue against government... READ MORE

6th September, 2015 546

RWANDAN PRESIDENT URGES BURUNDI NOT TO REPEAT GENOCIDE


Paul Kagame says president of neighbouring Burundi should have learned the lessons of 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi and moderate Hutu... READ MORE

8th November, 2015 409

LYCRA IN AFRICA A CYCLING DREAM COME TRUE


When you looked across Africa there were no bicycles Doug Ryder says... READ MORE

18th July, 2015 324

KIGELI V NDAHINDURWA, RWANDAN KING WITHOUT A CROWN, DIES AT 80


Two years after Kigeli's arrival in the United States, Rwanda descended into the genocide in which Hutu extremists murdered an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus... READ MORE

19th October, 2016 266

GOING APE: HUMANS PLAY ROLE OF MOUNTAIN GORILLAS IN RWANDA CEREMONY


Foreign visitors pay 750 ?494 to go gorilla tracking in the national park, while Rwandans themselves can go for less than 50... READ MORE

6th September, 2015 222

BURUNDI PRESIDENT PRESSES ON IN DISPUTED RE-ELECTION EFFORT


Nkurunziza's decision was a violation of the Arusha peace accords, which ended more than a decade of war that left about 300,000 Burundians dead... READ MORE

17th July, 2015 190

LAST DAYS FOR UN COURT TRYING SUSPECTS IN RWANDA GENOCIDE


But now, after 21 years, 93 cases and 2 billion, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is closing down... READ MORE

14th December, 2015 168

A CONGOLESE WARLORD KNOWN AS THE 'TERMINATOR' IS FINALLY GOING TO TRIAL IN THE HAGUE


Bosco Ntaganda was one of the most brutal rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo... READ MORE

2nd September, 2015 72

DEPORTATION LOOMS FOR GATINEAU MAN ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES IN RWANDA


A federal judge has denied a review of a pre-removal risk assessment that recommends Henri Jean-Claude Seyoboka be deported to Rwanda... READ MORE

22nd May, 2016 57

BORN FREE: PORTRAITS OF RWANDAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN AFTER 1994


In the spring of 1994, a young Pieter Hugo was sitting at his parent's house in Johannesburg watching TV as news of the Rwandan genocide unfolded... READ MORE

2nd June, 2016 45

RWANDA'S PAUL KAGAME TO RUN FOR THIRD PRESIDENTIAL TERM


Rwanda's President Paul Kagame confirms he will seek re-election for a third term in 2017 after constitutional changes that could allow him to stay in power until 2034... READ MORE

1st January, 2016 42

FEARS AS BURUNDI STARTS CENSUS TO REGISTER FOREIGNERS


Last month, Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, Burundi's public security minister, said the move was aimed at granting foreigners a biometric ID card... READ MORE

2nd March, 2016 41

CONGOLESE OFFICERS GOT PISTOLS FROM NORTH KOREANS


This took the form of training, financing, and logistical support for Burundan combatants crossing from Rwanda to Congo... READ MORE

14th May, 2016 24

DESPITE GENOCIDE WARNINGS BURUNDI SAYS IT IS NOT IN FLAMES


UNITED NATIONS - Burundi is not in flames, its foreign minister said Monday, dismissing international concerns that his country is at risk of a Rwanda-like genocide... READ MORE

10th November, 2015 16

'ALARM SIGNALS ARE FLASHING RED': UN CITES GANG RAPES, TORTURE, MASS GRAVES IN BURUNDI


The office of UN rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein's said in Geneva on Friday that 432 people have been killed in violence since April 26... READ MORE

16th January, 2016 16

BLASTS, GUNFIRE ROCK BURUNDI PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS OFFICIALS KILLED


Blasts gunfire rock burundi presidential election as officials killed... READ MORE

21st July, 2015 15

ARMED GROUP DECAPITATES VICTIMS IN DRC ATTACK


The FDLR was set up by Rwandan Hutu refugees in eastern DR Congo after the 1994 genocide in their country which claimed 800,000 lives... READ MORE

20th July, 2016 15

AID WORKERS BRAVERY SHOULD INSPIRE US TO DO MORE FOR THE WORLDS 60 MILLION REFUGEES


As the people of Burundi join the swell of refugees from Syria, governments and individuals have to do more to ease their plight... READ MORE

20th August, 2016 11

BLASTS, GUNFIRE ROCK BURUNDI PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS OFFICIALS KILLED


Blasts gunfire rock burundi presidential election as officials killed... READ MORE

21st July, 2015 7

ATTACK CLAIMED BY AL-SHABAAB KILLS 12 IN KENYAN GUEST HOUSE


At least a dozen people were killed by Somali militants in the Kenyan border area of Mandera Tuesday... READ MORE

26th October, 2016 0


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