Rwanda News

President Kagame has been talking up business opportunities to be had in Rwanda during his visit to Asia where he has been for the past few days.

Diplomatic talks have begun to ease tensions and offset the fallout from the May 18 violation of Uganda's airspace by a helicopter gunship belonging to the Rwandan military.

It happened just 14 years ago - the slaughter of roughly a million people here in only 100 days.

Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 12:36 pm Press Release: US State Department The United States welcomes efforts by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to advance the momentum for peace generated by the ...

Vietnam will continue to foster its solidarity, friendly and cooperative relations with Rwanda, for the benefit of the two peoples, peace, cooperation and development in the region and the world, said a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will begin marathon bilateral talks on Tuesday with visiting African leaders ahead of a three-day development conference in Yokohama, where Japan will pledge to double aid ...

President Nguyen Minh Triet and Rwandan President Paul Kagame review the guard of honour.

Removing deadly methane from Lake Kivu in Rwanda can solve twin problems -- draining the deadly lake and providing energy -- a government official said.

President Nguyen Minh Triet and his Rwanda counterpart, Paul Kagame, witnessed the signing of agreements in healthcare, education and scientific research, and agriculture in Hanoi on May 23 as the outcome of ...

Colonel Faustin Sebuhura, a man on Rwanda's most wanted list was Wednesday brought back to the country.

Efforts to address HIV/AIDS in Rwanda have not included blind people, Jacques Sindayigaya, Handicap International 's coordinator of a new program to address the virus in the population, said Monday during a ...

“They went for it. They're good-hearted kids”

Think Compassion - the Loveland-based nonprofit organization dedicated to educating children living in Africa - recently got a donation from an unlikely source - the second-graders at Olander Elementary School ... via Fort Collins Coloradoan

“In my heart, the dead are dead, and they cannot come back again”

A Rwandan woman whose family was killed during the 1994 genocide weaves baskets now with the wife of a man who helped kill them, CNN reported. via The Post Chronicle

To the outside world it has become as known as Africa's First World War with its foreign armies and invasions, and ceaseless killing and dying that seems to achieve nothing. via Mail & Guardian

“It's increasingly becoming a nightmare for genocide survivors”

KIGALI (Reuters) - A 90-year-old Rwandan genocide survivor has been stabbed and burnt to death by a gang that included four assailants who had confessed to taking part in the 1994 slaughter, a body representing genocide survivors said on Thursday.

Generosa Mukanyonga, a widow who lost her husband and children during the 1994 killings, was murdered in retribution for her petition for compensation, Benoit Kaboyi, executive secretary of the Ibuka group, said.

She had sought compensation from her attackers for damage to her property during the genocide in which 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed within 100 days. Read more

“But reports of atrocities, sexual violence in particular, are still very alarming. This latent insecurity is still preventing displaced populations from returning home and prompts some people into displacement”

Two agreements signed since the end of 2007 offer some hope for an end to more than a decade of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo , even if fighting has continued and a lasting solution has yet ... via AllAfrica.com

President Kufuor of Ghana and President Kagame of Rwanda shake hands before the event [Business Call to Action] CAFOD welcomes the launch of flagship projects by the private sector as part of the government's ... via CAFOD briefing

Saturday, May 10, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE THE Punjab University Vice Chancellor and other educationists from Pakistan have participated in a conference on OHigher Education Summit for Global ... via The News

“Three fifths of them would drown.”

Pangea is a name with a mythic allure. Pan Gaea is Ancient Greek for the Earth when it was just one solid land mass, before it broke up and drifted apart. via Times Online

'Joining the Business Call to Action, a dozen companies today announced concrete initiatives that apply core business expertise, utilizing their technology and innovative spirit to tackle the multiple ... via NextBillion.net