Rwanda News Archives

U.N. Troops Accused Of Smuggling by Staff U.N. insiders allege the United Nations is covering up allegations that its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo were dealing in arms, gold and ivory. via The Post Chronicle

“An alleged war criminal wanted by the world's top court should not be allowed to walk free in the Congo”

Congolese officials and UN peacekeepers should take swift action to enforce the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against a rebel leader accused of forcibly conscripting child soldiers and of other ... via AllAfrica.com

“Your church is very important, your church has a vital role in this community”

Jose Cendon, AFP, Getty Images Rwandan President Paul Kagame, right, and U.S. preacher Rick Warren address a crowd in Kigali in 2005. via National Post

“Kung Fu and Dragon Masasi, they went to the (Pakistani) camp in Mongbwalu and from there they came with seven boxes of ammunition, which were given to the combatants. The combatants brought this ammunition to the camp to fight the national army.”

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday April 28 2008. It was last updated at 10:23 on April 28 2008. via Guardian Unlimited

“When students learn about how history was falsified ... they become hot and want to understand”

Reminders of the genocide that rocked Rwanda 14 years ago are everywhere, but until now school children have not been taught about the events. via National Post

“We would like to learn how countries like India and China have used their manpower and technology to become competitive globally”

East Africa's business leaders are set to meet in Uganda to discuss ways of making the region more competitive in the global market. via AllAfrica.com

Congo troops clashed Friday with Rwandan Hutu militias with whom they were formerly allied, culminating a week of violence that has forced more than 12,000 people from their homes and prompted the U.N. refugee ... via The Oregonian

“He was trying to apologize to Tutsi youth at the conference”

Considered to be the first ecumenical youth gathering in Rwanda since the 1994 genocide there, more than 100 high-school-age and young adult Christians from six African countries and the United States gathered ... via Worldwide Faith News

“We call for an end to any violence and intimidation and stress the importance of respect for the sovereign people of Zimbabwe and the choice they have made at the ballot box.”

Britain and South Africa's ruling party leader Jacob Zuma made a united call on Wednesday for an end to the election stalemate in Zimbabwe, stepping up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to release results. via National Post

Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda met in New York in United Nations-chaired talks to review progress in dealing with armed groups. via United Nations

“There is information regarding Burundians that we got from Gacaca courts and we are still assembling it this information is very useful to us in this process”

Burundian nationals who committed Genocide may after all not get away with it thanks to ongoing talks between authorities in both countries. via AllAfrica.com

“I think first of all, its an insult”

- A Rwandan cabinet minister says he will refuse to declare his ethnicity before an upcoming visit to Canada as required by foreign affairs because the demand is "insulting."

Joseph Habineza risks being blocked from entering the country if he doesn't state whether he is a Hutu or Tutsi on his visitor's visa. The ethnicity requirement was front page news Thursday in the New Times, the largest newspaper in Rwanda.

Canada's relationship with Rwanda is shadowed by the horror of 800,000 dead killed in bloodshed over 100 days in 1994. A United Nations peacekeeping force was ill-equipped and under-staffed to prevent the rampant killings of Tutsis by Hutus. Read more

Casualty figures vary widely, but the tragedy leaves dozens dead. _ Oct. 4, 2007: An Antonov 26 cargo plane crashes into a Kinshasa neighborhood shortly after takeoff, killing at least 50 people. via International Herald Tribune

Three United Nations staff members are among only a handful of survivors from today's plane crash in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has killed dozens of people, the UN peacekeeping mission to ... via United Nations

“We talked to the Libyans who were behind this project and fortunately our brothers in Uganda and Kenya supported us in having it implemented.”

The recently signed Kampala-Kigali oil pipeline deal will reduce the current high costs of transportation, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has said. via AllAfrica.com

Rwandan consumers are having to dig into their pay to find money for sugar, which is now achieving luxury prices. via Tajikistan News.Net

Kigali - A Rwandan policeman was killed in a grenade attack during a genocide memorial service in the capital on Friday, police said. via Independent Online

A grenade attack in the Rwandan capital Kigali has killed one policeman while seriously injuring another. via Myanmar News.net

“It must be one of those extremist fellows still harboring the genocide ideology.”

A grenade thrown by an unknown attacker killed a policeman guarding Rwanda's genocide museum on Friday, in a rare attack in the central African nation still mourning the 1994 ethnic slaughter, police said. via Reuters

“They act when they are credibly threatened. They don't react when we throw snow at them.”

President George W. Bush seems genuinely troubled by the slaughter in Darfur and has periodically suggested to Condoleezza Rice: Why can't we just send troops in and take care of it? Each time, Rice patiently ... via International Herald Tribune

“I intend to keep the situation under close review and may revert to the Council with recommendations to ensure that the Mission's military and civilian deployments correspond to its mandated tasks.”

The redeployment of United Nations peacekeepers to the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , where critical steps are being taken to resolve long-standing conflict and instability, risks creating ... via United Nations

“We have started implementing the Mbarara-Katuna link and we should be done by November”

News By Edris Kisambira Uganda Telecom has started work on a fiber-optic link from the western town of Mbarara in Uganda to the Rwanda border-crossing point at Katuna. via CIO

“I will spare no effort in working with member states to translate this principle from word to deed”

At a ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of the mass slaughter in Rwanda, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pledged to step up efforts to prevent another genocide. via Newsday.com

“Imagine the arrogance involved - how can a Spanish judge sit in some town or village in Spain and sees it is his duty to indict the whole leadership of a nation”

Paul Kagame led the forces that stopped the killings in 1994 Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has said a Spanish judge who issued arrest warrants for 40 Rwandan army officers can "go to hell". Mr Kagame described ... via BBC

“You as judges should always take in account the contempt with which these people from rich countries treat us who are they to preach to us about human rights when they have championed the worst abuses of human rights?”

President Paul Kagame Thursday said that the Judiciary was not an isolated organ. via AllAfrica.com

“This is an ambitious plan, but the Gishwati chimpanzees are on the brink of extinction. Every newly planted tree increases their chance of survival by providing additional food, shelter and security from people”

Organizers of the project, named the Rwandan National Conservation Park, said today that a 30-mile tree corridor will be planted to connect the Gishwati Forest Reserve, the chimpanzees' home range, to Nyungwe ... via E-Wire Environmental News Top

“Uganda should be a purpose-driven nation as well”

Megachurch pastor Rick Warren launched a national Purpose Driven Living program in Uganda over the weekend aimed at helping the country's leaders live purposeful lives that will build up their nation. via Church Executive