Rwanda News

The Mounties have arrested a 37-year-old Rwandan man in southwestern Ontario and charged him with war crimes related to the 1994 genocide in his home country.

Congolese soldiers involved in a U.N.-backed offensive against Rwandan rebels attacked villages where thousands of civilians had gathered to receive measles jabs, a humanitarian agency said on Friday.

Internet speeds in Rwanda are set to improve dramatically, with the laying of a 1,500 km cable by Green Future, a last-mile connectivity company.

THERE is a debate among geopolitical and economic commentators on the merits of Chinese versus Western involvement with Africa.

Ten years ago, Uwayesu Justus was living among piles of garbage in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali.

Near the beginning of "The Overwhelming,'' a white academic named Jack Exley, newly arrived in Rwanda in early 1994, wastes no time in lecturing his hosts about the need to throw off the shackles of history.

Paul Rusesabagina, subject of the film Hotel Rwanda and author of An Ordinary Man, speaks at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center gymnasium.

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 5:37 pm Press Release: United Nations Eight men found guilty by a United Nations-backed court of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's brutal decade-long civil war have been transferred to Rwanda to serve their sentences.

A Rwandan man who was the first person convicted under a law allowing people in Canada to be tried for war crimes committed abroad has been sentenced to life in prison.

According to Dr. Michael Biryabarema, the director of the Rwanda Geology and Mines Authority , the mine caved in last Saturday while miners were busy clearing a mine shaft for exploration.

Three Rwandan miners remained trapped underground near the capital Kigali after part of the gallery they were working in collapsed Saturday, the government said Monday.

The food situation in the country is more stable than it has been in many years, Agriculture and Livestock Minister, Dr Agnes Kalibata has said.

The government of Rwanda is developing a Petroleum Exploration Policy and law to facilitate oil exploration in the country.

Since 2007, readers, scholars, analysts and indeed nations themselves have looked to the Ibrahim Index of African Governance for valuable insight on the performance and relative rankings of African Governments.

By Cyprian Musoke A Special AU summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced peoples opens in Kampala today.

Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority in conjunction with the International Civil Aviation Organisations , is currently hosting a meeting in Kigali that is discussing strategies for curbing disease transmission in air travel.

October 16, 2009 Rwanda: Doctor fired over "neglect" of H1N1 case Via The New Times : Doctor sacked over Swine flu - neglect' . It looks like a tempest in a faraway teapot, but some healthcare systems can't take much stress.

Idelphonse Nizeyimana sits in the dock at the International Criminal Tribunal, in Arusha, Tanzania, 14 Oct 2009 Rwanda's former deputy intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana sits in the dock at the International Criminal Tribunal, Wednesday, Oct.

A top suspect accused of forming secret death squads and orchestrating the killings of thousands during Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to war crimes charges.

Thousands of Tutsis gathered in a refugee camp in south Rwanda on June 30, 1994, the height of the genocide.