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.
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.