Rwanda News

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said an outspoken presidential aspirant could be prosecuted for inflammatory remarks about the 1994 genocide.

Internally displaced people are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo even as authorities beef up security in IDP camps, officials said.

SUAMICO - Cooking a pasta meal at his restaurant is one thing, but creating a meal from scratch for 4,000 people in a country where grocery stores aren't quite the norm and electricity scarce was a new challenge for J.R. Schoenfeld.

The young man had been fighting in the rebel movement for 11 years when a piece of paper fell from the sky and fluttered down onto the jungle floor.

Rwandaa s media reports that other opposition groups have condemned the attack and accused President Kagamea s ruling Patriotic Front Party of complicity - - a charge RPF denies.

Rwandan police arrested five men on Wednesday for attacking a potential presidential candidate who has been accused of stirring ethnic tensions in a country where 800,000 people were killed in the 1994 genocide.

Efforts will begin this year to expand the Gishwati National Conservation Park in Rwanda by 21 percent and begin the development of a 30-mile forest corridor to Nyungwe National Park for a group of 14 chimpanzees facing extinction.

President Paul Kagame yesterday called upon Rwandans to shun politicians who want to drag them back into old-fashioned politics because the country has moved on to another chapter.

In a move seen as being more accountable to the public, Kigali City Council presented to its residents its performance results during last year.

Fluorescent sandals litter the entrance to a church on the outskirts of Rwanda's undulating capital Kigali.

Refugees from Rwanda cross the Rusumo border into Tanzania on May 30, 1994. In the months following the hate-fuelled blood frenzy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the top diplomats at Rwanda's embassy in Ottawa were recalled to a vastly different country than the one they had left.

Rwandan Hutu soldiers shot down the Hutu president's plane on the eve of the 1994 genocide, according to a government-commissioned inquiry that formally assigned blame for the crash that sparked the slaughter of more than 500,000 people.

THE Commonwealth will send a monitoring team to Rwanda's August presidential election in which incumbent Paul Kagame is likely to seek a second seven-year term.

A few months ago in Congo, a group of rebels decapitated the chief of the village of Busurungi, tied the village men in a line elbow to elbow and cut off their heads.

In a move that may demonstrate a shift in how France handles Rwandan exiles facing war crimes charges, French police yesterday arrested a Hutu in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

The arrest of Sosthene Munyemana was made at the request of Rwanda, which is seeking his extradition on war crimes charges. Mr. Munyemana, a prominent Hutu doctor from Rwanda's second largest city of Butare has lived in France since 1994 and had sought asylum there but was turned down last year. He was freed on bail shortly after his arrest Wednesday, pending a court appearance.

Congolese child refugees, some orphaned or separated from their family after conflict in the region displaced them, find shelter at the Don Bosco Ngangi community center on November 14, 2008 in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Zambia and Rwanda have agreed to jointly identify and arrest '1994' genocide suspects who may be living in Zambia as refugees, the state ZANIS news agency reported today.

Even as Rwanda released the findings last week, of an inquiry into the most probable cause of the April 1994 air crash that killed President Juvenal Habyarimana and 11 other people, several questions remain unanswered about the fate of the Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder.

KIGALI, 12 January 2010 - Rwanda has recorded a sharp improvement in food security following the government's measures to boost agricultural production in 2009, officials said.

Kigali - The of Minister Gender and Family Promotion , Jean d'Arc Mujawamariya, has urged the Civil Society Organizations to be vigilant and identify loopholes in the Child Act by promoting and advocating for the protection of children's rights She said this yesterday while officiating at the opening of the stakeholders workshop on the implementing ...