Wearing a white dress and an uncertain smile, Irene Mutoni gazes from her cot, a two-year-old girl in a fading photograph. Her favourite food, says the caption, was banana and rice. Her favourite toy was a stuffed dog. Her first word was daddy. Her method of death was drowning in boiling water.
The echo of the Radio des Milles Collines still haunts Rwanda a decade after a million people died at the hands of Hutu mass murderers inflamed by its broadcasts. It has taken 10 years for Rwandan authorities to allow another private radio station to take to the airwaves.
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/ 19 February 2004
Rwanda is to release a large number of prisoners accused of participating in the country’s 1994 genocide who have confessed to their roles in massacres that claimed the lives of up to a million people, the chief prosecutor said on Wednesday. The release plan comes as Rwanda prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary genocide.
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/ 19 February 2004
Rwanda is to release a large number of prisoners accused of participating in the country’s 1994 genocide who have confessed to their roles in massacres that claimed the lives of up to a million people, the chief prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 February 2004
African leaders ended their summit in Rwanda on Saturday having adopted a unique peer review system aimed at allowing countries on the continent to judge the behaviour of fellow African states. ”The most important point is that we can now start evaluation,” Mozambican President Joachim Chissano said.
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/ 22 November 2003
The former head of a Rwandan rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo and blamed for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has called on his former companions-in-arms to follow his example and surrender. But the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda’s interim leader, Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro, does not agree.
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/ 21 November 2003
Rwandan police on Thursday seized copies of the country’s only independent newspaper and arrested its director and at least two of his journalists on charges of libel and ”divisionism.”
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/ 31 October 2003
After fighting on opposite sides of what was dubbed Africa’s ”first world war”, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are now working to normalise their relations, officials from both countries said in Kigali on Thursday.
Rwanda’s electoral body on Thursday rejected criticism by European Union observers to this week’s presidential election, accusing them of bias in favor of opposition candidate Faustin Twagiramungu.
Paul Kagame has won Rwanda’s presidential election in a landslide, with 95,05% of the vote, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced on Tuesday.
Paul Kagame’s thumping victory in Rwanda’s presidential poll may be too much of a landslide for his own good, analysts said on Tuesday, urging the Tutsi leader to open up to the mainly Hutu opposition.
Intimidation alleged in Rwanda poll
A Rwandan presidential candidate vowed on Wednesday to grant a general amnesty to perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in the traumatised central African country. The upcoming vote will be the first multi-party election since the genocide.
At the end of a two-year mass trial, a court has convicted 100 people on various charges relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and sentenced 11 to death, a state prosecutor said on Monday.
Members of Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) two main rebel groups who were due to be sworn in as ministers in a landmark transition government Friday have refused to take the oath of office, an official from one of the rebel movements said.
At least 10 people were killed and about 100 wounded, most of them women and children, on Wednesday as fierce clashes rocked the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bunia, said a UN representative, as fears mounted of a humanitarian disaster.
A rebel group that has seized the town of Bunia in the northeastern DRC, the Rwandan-backed Union of Congolese Patriots, said on Tuesday that if French soldiers were sent by the United Nations to keep peace in the area they would be viewed as ”enemies”.
A stand-off outside the compound of UN peacekeepers in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bunia ended overnight but sporadic shooting and tension continued on Saturday.
At least 1 000 people have been killed in ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one day after the signing of an accord to end over four years of war in the vast Central African country.
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/ 26 February 2003
Rebels holding much of the north of Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced eight members of their movement to prison terms ranging from 10 to 12 months in the last ruling of a trial in the town of Gbadolite.
Former US President Bill Clinton on Wednesday said the world has a stake in helping Africans survive Aids and in using the knowledge gained to help other regions of the globe where the disease is growing at alarming rates.
Rwanda and the DRC are expected to meet their obligations under a new peace deal within 90 days after their presidents sign the accord, an official in Kigali said Tuesday, as Rwandan rebels gave a cautious welcome to the pact.
An inquiry organised by a key rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has shown that 41 people were killed in violence in the rebel-controlled city of Kisangani last month.
Rwandan-backed rebels who control the eastern third of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have asked Kinshasa not to apply a peace pact reached between the government and a rival rebel group at talks early this year.
Rwanda has confirmed it will meet in South Africa this week with officials of the DRC government to pursue efforts to restore peace.
As is the case across Africa, posters in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, warn citizens to practise safe sex, but here they carry the message trilingually.
Rwandan police have arrested two people in connection with the killing of two endangered mountain gorillas and the disappearance of an infant in the first incident of poaching in 17 years.
The head of the rebel Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC) said Friday he still believes a peace deal struck with the Democratic Republic of Congo government on the sidelines of peace talks in
South Africa will work.
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will not be resolved until a global power-sharing pact is struck.
Survivors of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and relatives of those jailed for their alleged role in the massacres hope that this week’s revival of traditional village courts will help ease the pain.