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.
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/ 17 September 2008
Women are playing a crucial role in post-genocide Rwandan politics.
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/ 15 September 2008
Rwanda held an election on Monday but with hardly any opposition candidates standing, President Paul Kagame is expected to tighten his grip.
Rwanda formally accused senior French officials on Tuesday of involvement in its 1994 genocide and called for them to be put on trial.
Rwanda says it could withdraw peacekeepers from Darfur if the UN fails to renew the contract of a top Rwandan commander indicted for war crimes.
The United Nations Security Council has lifted an arms embargo on Rwanda, about 13 years since it was imposed after the 1994 genocide.
Medical records and other health information can now be easily shared via cellhone and other modern technologies. Such information and communication technologies are an important way for Africa to address some of its most pressing challenges, writes Mary Kimani.
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/ 19 February 2008
After seeing graphic reminders of the Rwandan genocide, United States President George Bush on Tuesday called for increased international efforts to help Darfur. Bush visited a memorial to the 1994 genocide, in which 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Hutu extremists.
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/ 4 February 2008
The death toll from a series of earthquakes that hit Central Africa rose on Monday to 43 as a major aid operation for hundreds of injured and thousands of homeless gathered pace amid new aftershocks. Thirty-seven of the deaths were reported in Rwanda’s Western Province and six around the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu, which was near the epicentre.
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/ 3 February 2008
Two strong earthquakes shook the African Great Lakes region on Sunday, killing at least 34 people in Rwanda and six in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to officials and hospital sources. Hundreds of people were wounded, many with fractured limbs, after the two quakes struck close together along the western Rift Valley fault.
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/ 29 January 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon kicked off a landmark trip to Rwanda on Tuesday with a visit to the genocide memorial, amid simmering resentment over the world body’s failure to prevent the 1994 massacres. Ban paid homage to the victims of the massacres, which left about 800 000 people dead, mainly from the Tutsi minority of President Paul Kagame.
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/ 23 January 2008
With most formal banks inaccessible to many Africans, the service of cellphone banking is expanding to the poor on the continent. Mary Kimani examines how financial institutions are extending their services through the ubiquitous usage of cellphones in rural areas.