Rwanda News

African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from colonial masters.

While addressing the Fifth Annual Oxford Africa Business Conference that was recently held in London, the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame praised the African continent saying that it is the new frontier for business, which holds the promise for the global economic turn-around. President Kagame was the inaugural recipient of the Distinction of ... (more)

The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday.

The deployment of a rapid UN intervention force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo should be speeded up in view of this week's fresh unrest, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

Witnessing life in Goma, a city that's been invaded, ransacked, inundated with refugees, and flattened by a volcano -- all in the last 17 years.

M23 rebel recruits attend military lessons in the Rumangabo military camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 16, 2013.

Rwandan women who got financial advice from Fran Pastore at WBDC and opened ice cream shop in Rwanda.

Congo's army used combat helicopters to bombard rebel fighters on Monday near the city of Goma in the first clashes in nearly six months, days before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to visit the troubled eastern borderlands.

A military commander in eastern Congo says rebels attacked an army position north of Goma, a major provincial capital in the country's troubled east.

Veneranda Niyitegeka, an uneducated woman in her 50's and a resident of Huye, was living an impoverished life for many years, making a living by tilling other people's gardens and her own garden.

From the Oxford Mail , about how some Oxford University students clowned when Rwanda's pro-free-market president visited the campus to accept a business award : "Eggs were thrown and two people arrested by police during the protest at the visit of Rwandan president Paul Kagame to Oxford [yesterday]." More: "Mr Kagame gave a keynote speech at Said ... (more)

This number has slightly reduced and only 5000 people remain illiterate. The district's goal is to have no illiterate people by 2014.

In April 1994, on a quiet road in Kigali a group of neighbors was filmed. This was the opening days of the Rwandan Genocide.

In an exclusive interview with Chris McGreal in Kigali, Rwanda's president denies backing an accused Congolese war criminal and says challenge to senior US official proves his innocence A new M23 recruit demonstrates his martial arts skills in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last week.

A Rwandan court on Wednesday granted a prosecutor's request to keep in custody a genocide suspect extradited from Norway.

The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday.

President Kagame speaks to a group of women during a visit to Southern Rwanda in February 2013.

"Global Environment Facility has invested a lot in the African region, bringing together different themes of environmental governance into integrated strategies that cross local, national and regional boundaries while meeting and respecting our respective development agenda, national policies and programs," said Minister of Natural Resources, ... (more)

Rwandans are very vulnerable in a country with a large number of political prisoners and the constant killings of friends and families of those who dare to question the system.

May 15, 2013 - LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Daryush Shokof, director and producer of the upcoming 3D action/adventure "Moon and 8" has just announced that he has signed on to direct and produce upcoming "Ekundayo," a dramatic action film in the spirit of "Blood Diamond," "The Last King of Scotland" and "Hotel Rwanda". "Ekundayo" will be produced by Shif ... (more)