Rwanda launches youth empowerment campaign
Rwanda’s Minister of Youth and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Jean Philbert Nsengimana officially launched a programme dubbed ‘Agaciro Kange’ aimed at boosting youth empowerment progr...
Category Archives: Rwanda
Rwandan refugees fear a cessation of refugee status by the UNHCR
JOHANNESBURG (IPS) – They should be wary of each other. The historical conflict between their ethnicities has resulted in Africa’s largest genocide. But Claude Kayitare sits on the verandah of a pop...
Landslide victory for Kagame in the face of grenade attack
Paul Kagame has won a second term in office after garnering a whopping 93 percent of the vote in the Rwandan Presidential election by a land slide majority. The elections took place on August 9th ami...
Rwanda’s elections will be free – but will it be fair?
Foreign diplomats and human rights groups say signs of repression have marred the run-up to Rwanda’s elections. The country’s donors expect the polls to be peaceful and say the revised electoral code...
Diplomatic tension between South Africa and Rwanda escalates as Envoy ...
South Africa has recalled its envoy to Rwanda following diplomatic tensions between Pretoria and Kigali after a recent assassination attempt on an exiled Rwandan army general in Johannesburg. As the ...
5 million Rwandans register to vote in upcoming presidential elections...
Charles Munyaneza, the executive secretary of Rwanda’s electoral body, has said that 5 million Rwandans, over half of the country’s population, have been registered for the forthcoming presidential e...
Spanish Prime Minister Snubs Rwandan President Paul Kagame over Human ...
The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has acted decisively and pulled out of a meeting with President Paul Kagame on Friday after receiving a petition alleging the Rwandan leader ha...
Serious questions about Paul Kagame’s leadership – As oppo...
Rwanda’s opposition Democratic Green Party has called on President Paul Kagame’s government to begin a thorough investigation into the murder of the vice president of his party. The chairman of the p...
Rwandan police arrests more newspaper journalists – Releases des...
After last week’s arrest of Uwimana Agnes, the editor and owner of UMURABYO newspaper, police detained two more staff of the newspaper Saidath Mukakibibi a reporter and Patrick Kambale the designer b...
Paul Kagame orders the arrest of another Journalist in Rwanda
The president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame has ordered the arrest of a newspaper editor on charges of genocide denial and stirring ethnic hatred less than a month ahead of August’s presidential elect...
Is Paul Kagame a Ruthless Dictator?
Paul Kagame is the president of Rwanda. Time and again, he has been linked to assassination attempts on the country’s opposition politicians. But again this is a man who Tony Blair, the former Britis...
Rwandan Genocide Pastor Arrested in Uganda
Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, a pastor in the Kigali-Rural prefecture, accused of leading and coordinating attacks on his country’s minority Tutsis during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, has been arreste...
Presidential hopeful arrested by Police in Rwanda
Dozens of opposition protesters have been arrested in Uganda, including a presidential contender on suspicion of attempted murder. All this happened as President Paul Kagame presented his papers for...
Newspaper Editor Killed in Rwanda – Press Accuses Government Security ...
The acting editor of a major newspaper in Rwanda, the Umuvugizi, has been killed because his paper was investigating the shooting of a Rwandan general. These claims were made by the paper’s Editor in...
Police in South Africa Arrest four people in connection with shooting ...
Police in South Africa are saying they have arrested four people for the shooting of an exiled Rwandan army general on Saturday. The police spokesman, Govind Samy, would not give the nationality of t...
Assassination Attempt on Rwanda’s Former Army Chief in South Africa
Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a former Rwandan army chief of staff, has been shot in South Africa and taken to hospital in a critical condition. According to reports filed by the BBC, Nyamwasa’s wife sai...