Paul Kagame News

A RWANDAN woman living in Hailsham is one of the driving forces behind a new A 50,000 project to bring better education and healthcare to the village where she grew up.

As Rwanda applies this week to join the Commonwealth, the international grouping dominated by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record.

THE 60th summit of the 53-member Commonwealth, a most diverse, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural group of very unequally developed nations, gets underway in Port of Spain on Friday amid high expectations for consensus on a range of global issues.

Kampala The signing of the much awaited East African Community Common Market protocol last Friday after eight years of haggling has flung open the door for what is expected to be a rigorous fight for market space in the region.

Refugees crossing the border into Tanzania in 1994 fleeing the violence in which hundreds of thousands died enlarge Rwanda is set to succeed in its bid to join the Commonwealth this week despite serious concerns over its human rights record, according to a senior source close to the negotiations.

The 100 days of killings that seared this small, mountainous country into the global consciousness also destroyed its relationship with France.

President Paul Kagame yesterday arrived in Arusha, Tanzania for the 11th Summit of Heads of State of the East African Community but it was not clear who would take over from him as Chairman of the regional bloc.

The five Heads of State of the East African Community Friday signed the EAC Common Market Protocol in Arusha, Tanzania.

A former speaker of the Rwandan parliament warned that his country could again descend into chaos and violence, 15 years after the genocide that killed as many as 1 million people.

President Mwai Kibaki leaves for Arusha, Tanzania later Thursday for a three-day official tour during which he will attend the 11th Summit of the Heads of State of the East African Community.

President Paul Kagame yesterday received a delegation of German investors who are on a fact finding mission aimed at identifying investment opportunities in the country.

Rwanda offers one of the best investment opportunities on the African continent and doing business in the country has been eased by a set of reforms that favour investors, a renown Germany entrepreneur told The New Times yesterday.

SHEIKH, Egypt: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao discussed bilateral ties and cooperation with several African leaders on the sidelines of the fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which opened on Sunday at the Egyptian tourist resort.

British taxpayers, who have seen huge sums of their hard-earned money handed over in recent years to the Rwandan government for economic development, might be puzzled by the Rwandan president Paul Kagame's suggestion that Rwanda 's donors should not condition their aid on respect for human rights and political freedom.

One argument is that Chinese investment is exploitative and undermines the development of democracy and human rights on the continent.

Expensive medical equipment is lying unused in Rwanda's leading hospital because it costs too much to use it, a report by enterprising students has found.

Rwanda's Irene Niyombaza, an Information Communication and Technology expert was yesterday honoured by the United States Telecommunications Training Institute as Graduate number 8.000. According to the Chairman of USTTI, Ambassador Michael R. Gardner, the 27-year old Infrastructure Officer at the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency , was praised for ...

The United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the problem of FDLR is being resolved by the European Union.

Rwanda's progress and rebuilding after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, is an outstanding example to show other conflict ravaged countries worldwide that it is possible to re-establish a stable, secure and growing economy after years of devastating civil strife, a senior UK government official said yesterday.

It's a long way from selling B.C. real estate to healing Rwanda. But 56-year-old Maple Ridge-native Cathy Emmerson made the move - the biggest of her life - six years ago and never looked back.