UN chief Ban Ki-moon has arrived in Rwanda in the midst of a major dispute over a leaked UN report on war crimes allegedly committed by Rwanda.
The UN has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rwanda says it is ready to withdraw its UN peacekeepers from Sudan if the UN publishes a report accusing its army of possible genocide in the 1990s.
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International asked Rwanda on Tuesday to review its laws on "genocide ideology".
Rwanda has threatened to withdraw from UN peacekeeping if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of possible genocide.
Rwanda rejected as malicious a leaked draft United Nations report that said its troops may have committed genocide in the DRC in the 1990s.
Unprecedented investigation by human rights commissioner says Hutu deaths "cannot be put down to margins of war".
The enormity of the atrocity in Rwanda demands that we keep revisiting it and questioning it. There is no guarantee it won’t happen elsewhere.
The United States is "concerned" about human rights violations that occurred before recent presidential elections in Rwanda.
Rwanda President Paul Kagame secured another seven-year term on Wednesday after being declared landslide winner of the country’s election.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame celebrated an election victory by dancing with thousands of supporters into the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday.
Rwandan leader Paul Kagame was set for a second seven-year term in office after provisional results on Tuesday showed he had won 93% of the vote.
Rwandans elect a new president on Monday with incumbent Paul Kagame set for a landslide win in the country’s second poll since the 1994 genocide.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front has won much credit for rebuilding the country after the 1994 genocide, but political violence and suppression continue.
Rwandans go to the polls on Monday to return to power what many analysts describe as a "minority ethnic dictatorship" lorded over by Paul Kagame.
Rwanda’s regulatory body has suspended about 30 media organisations, Reporters sans Frontières reported on Tuesday.
A former administrator accused of transporting soldiers to kill thousands of people during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has received a 25-year sentence.
With the opposition frequently harassed and the press stifled, hopes of a free election are fading.
Rwanda’s foreign minister on Monday vehemently denied the government was involved in three recent high-profile attacks on opponents.
Average Rwandans suffer as government cracks down on political opposition and journalists, writes <b>Susan Thomson</b>.
Campaigning for Rwanda’s August 9 presidential election begins on Tuesday in a tense atmosphere following a string of attacks.
Uganda forcibly returned 1 700 Rwandan asylum-seekers and refugees, the United Nations said on Friday.
Anne Marie fled the Rwandan genocide in 1994. But her new life in South African was shattered in the 2008 xenophobia attacks.
President Paul Kagame will face three challengers in Rwanda’s August 9 presidential elections, the electoral commission announced on Wednesday.
Kigali has summoned SA’s ambassador to voice concern over the probe into the shooting last month in Johannesburg of a Rwandan general.
Eight hours west of Lusaka in the rural town of Mongu, Zambia, about 2 500 children come together to watch World Cup soccer on huge screens.
The Rwandan refugee was walking home one night when four men jumped him and put him in a stranglehold. He lay still, pretending to be dead.
As Rwanda’s election approaches, critics fear President Paul Kagame’s government is smashing dissent.
The justice department was investigating whether SA should consider an extradition request for former Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Police are investigating a case of attempted murder in the shooting of an exiled Rwandan general who is accused of terrorism in his homeland.
With an election looming, an opposition leader detained and newspapers closed, Paul Kagame defends accusations against of suppressing dissent.
Women occupy some of the most important government ministries and make up 56% of the country’s parliamentarians, including the speaker.