Congo said it wants the UN peacekeeping force to "neutralise" a new rebel movement and a force that helped perpetrate Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
Southern African leaders on Saturday slammed Rwanda for supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a threat to regional stability.
Germany has suspended millions of euros in aid to Rwanda over allegations that the country is backing rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The UK has followed measures by the US and Netherlands after a UN report accused Rwanda of arming rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Alarm bells have been ringing in Washington and London over Rwanda’s clampdown on internal freedoms, writes David Smith.
The head of the US war crimes office has warned Rwanda’s leaders they could face prosecution for arming groups responsible for atrocities in the DRC.
Now that Rwanda’s Gacaca courts has completed their mandate, the fear that has so far kept the peace must give way to trust, writes Jan Hofmeyr.
The consumer price index for urban areas in Rwanda has risen by almost 3% due and this has been attributed partly to higher food prices.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has criticised Western powers for not arresting or extraditing suspected killers in the countries 1994 genocide.
Days before an exiled Rwandan army general was shot and wounded in SA, two suspects were plotting another attempt on his life, a court witness says.
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/ 30 January 2012
Two journalists jailed for insulting Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and denying the genocide are appealing their sentences.
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/ 10 January 2012
A French report has cleared Paul Kagame’s aides of a plane attack that killed French nationals and was one of the catalysts of the Rwandan genocide.
Rwanda has urged Canada to ensure the deportation of a Rwandan ‘genocide inciting’ refugee with assurances that the country can conduct fair trials.
The chief prosecutor at the ICC has appealed its decision to drop charges against Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana and order his release.
Journalists, on the other hand, are daunted by the responsibilities that would come with self-regulation.
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/ 17 November 2011
Rwanda will import lions and rhinos from South Africa next year after its own wildlife was decimated by poaching and conflict.
It seems that every few years rich countries and their development institutions find a new "favourite friend" in Africa.
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/ 1 September 2011
A Rwandan paper has suspended publication after "serious threats" over an article that suggested President Paul Kagame is a sociopath.
One of the men accused of trying to kill a former Rwandan general exiled in SA said that Rwandan soldiers were behind the plot, a friend testified.
The UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda has sentenced former families minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko to life in prison for genocide.
The UN court for Rwanda on Tuesday handed a 30-year prison sentence to former army chief Augustin Bizimungu for his role in the 1994 genocide.
It is the end of the week of commemorative events throughout Rwanda to mark the 17th anniversary of the genocide of the Tutsi people.
A Rwandan prosecutor has asked for a 33-year prison sentence for the editor of a local independent newspaper accused of denying the 1994 genocide.
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/ 2 December 2010
An United Nations Security Council committee blacklisted a commander in the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for ordering massacres.
Finalist — Government category: <b>President Paul Kagame</b>.
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/ 12 October 2010
Rwanda on Tuesday applauded the arrest of a Hutu rebel leader wanted for war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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/ 11 October 2010
Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the DRC, was arrested in Paris on Monday.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon thanked Rwanda President Paul Kagame on Sunday for keeping peacekeeping troops in Sudan.
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/ 25 September 2010
Rwanda, which had threatened to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan’s western Darfur region, has decided to leave its troops in the territory.
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/ 15 September 2010
Up to 500 000 women worldwide die while pregnant or in childbirth — and half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa.
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/ 14 September 2010
The Uganda army on Tuesday dismissed accusations in a leaked UN draft report that it committed war crimes in the DRC in the 1990s.
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/ 9 September 2010
The UN urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as it sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked UN report.