The Rapid SMS scheme is being tested in the Musanze District in Rwanda where 432 health workers have received cellphones.
Two hand grenade attacks in the Rwandan capital Kigali have killed one person and wounded 28 others overnight.
Former Hutu rebel Epiphany Mukamana did a little jig when she told of her pleasure at being able to escape her one-time base in a dense DRC forest.
Rwanda has a plan to prevent any return to the genocide of 1994: connect 100 000 children to the outside world with their own laptops.
Homa Khaleeli writes that 15 years after a bloody genocide, Rwanda is well worth schlepping to.
Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that France made mistakes during the 1994 genocide but stopped short of apologising during his visit to Rwanda on Thursday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Rwanda on Thursday for a landmark visit aimed at mending ties with Kigali.
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/ 14 December 2009
A former journalist was sentenced to life in prison for her role in inciting genocide in Rwanda, local groups said on Monday.
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/ 30 November 2009
Rwanda wants to "clear up the diplomatic climate which has been poisoned since 1994" with France, the Kigali government said on Monday.
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/ 25 November 2009
Military operations have failed to contain Rwandan-Hutu rebels in the DRC and action is needed to restrict their financing, says a report by the UN.
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/ 19 October 2009
As Rwanda reintegrates into East Africa and more Kenyans are drawn there, Lloyd Igane is amused by the resulting culture clash.
A Rwandan former intelligence officer suspected of playing a key role in the 1994 genocide has been arrested in Kampala, sources said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 September 2009
An ex-Rwandan minister charged with genocide held meetings ”to spread the gospel of genocide” ahead of a massacre in 1994, a court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 28 September 2009
Attackers threw a grenade into a market in a small town in Rwanda, killing four people and wounding 47 others, Rwandan police said on Monday.
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/ 3 September 2009
Alfred Mukezamfura was sentenced to life in prison for inciting hatred during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, state radio said on Thursday.
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/ 1 September 2009
A former Rwandan Baptist pastor went on trial in Finland on Tuesday, accused of genocide in the African country’s 1994 massacres.
DRC President Joseph Kabila met his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on Thursday for the first official bilateral talks between the states in 13 years.
Percy Zvomuya interviews the original dub poet — Linton Kwesi Johnson — ahead of his SA tour.
A Rwandan man living in the US was arrested on Thursday in connection with the 1994 genocide in his home country, the US Department of Justice said.
Fifteen years after the Rwandan genocide — in which about 800 000 died — prosecutors say hundreds of suspected perpetrators are still at large.
A report has found that the remains of genocide victims buried in mass graves in Uganda have been exhumed to be used in witchcraft.
African governments should continue their development spending plans and draw down foreign exchange reserves to bolster their economies, said the IMF.
Rwanda is to develop an integrated gas-extraction and electricity-generation facility at Lake Kivu to neutralise the ”killer lake” and generate power.
Paula Akugizibwe discovers her hometown, Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is rapidly catching up with 21st-century pop culture.
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/ 11 February 2009
Big-spending and hyper-ambitious Sudanese club Al-Merreikh are in trouble just one match into their 2009 African Champions League campaign.
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/ 7 February 2009
DRC rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, currently under house arrest in Rwanda, will eventually be sent back to his country, Rwanda said on Saturday.
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/ 19 December 2008
The UN on Thursday hailed convictions by a UN-backed tribunal of three senior Rwandan army officials for participating in the 1994 genocide.
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/ 18 December 2008
A choir boy as a youth, Theoneste Bagosora rose to become a key officer in Rwanda’s military before being accused of masterminding the 1994 genocide.
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/ 21 November 2008
Rwanda plans to lay 2 300km of fibre-optic cable costing -million in 2009 to extend a network throughout most of the Central African nation
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/ 20 November 2008
A top official has been transferred to France in connection with the death of Rwanda’s former president
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/ 12 November 2008
Rwanda asked the German ambassador to leave Kigali on Tuesday in a growing row over Germany’s arrest of a senior aide to President Paul Kagame.
Rwanda has implemented a long-delayed ban on the import and use of chlorofluorocarbon gases that damage the ozone layer.