Just hours after her arrest in France, Agathe Kanziga Habyarimana, widow of former president Juvénal Habyarimana was released on bail. Her arrest on an international warrant, issued by the Rwandan government came barely a week after French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Rwanda, in the first visit by a French president in over a quarter decade. [...]
Eighteen people are reported injured after three simultaneous grenade attacks in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. The attacks that looked choreographed left one person dead as they went off in the city’s busiest points last night. According to state radio, five of the injured were in serious condition following the attacks on a busy bus station, a [...]
Rwandan opposition parties have decided to consolidate their efforts in a bid to end what they term as “tactical and procedural problems” as well as end harassment and intimidation by the government. A joint statement issued this morning by the three parties namely; United Democratic Forces-FDU Inkingi, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and Parti Social [...]
Rwanda, the East African country that is embracing a transition to a Green Economy, will be the global host of World Environment Day 2010, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced. World Environment Day (WED), which aims to be the biggest global celebration for positive environmental action, is coordinated by UNEP every year on [...]
President Paul Kagame affirmed last week that the “honeymoon” of hard-talking opposition politician Ms. Ingabire Victoire will come to an end at some point with the law taking its course. Just day after the Monday 8th press conference, Ms. Ingabire was summoned by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), a meeting whose details remain sketchy. The [...]
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki today met and held discussions with former Presidents Olesegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, who briefed him on the current situation in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to press statements from the presidential press service, the meeting briefed President Kibaki on the current situation in the [...]
A new constitution that expands the powers of the presidency in Angola is set to be approved by the country’s parliament. But the main opposition party in the country has walked out of parliament in protest as the assembly approved the first reading of the new document. Some parliament members of the opposition [...]
The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has dismissed 100 top government officials in the country’s Finance Ministry after they were accused of engaging in corrupt activities in the Ministry. The officials who were accused of organising a network of corruption and siphoning government funds for their own personal use were found [...]
Youth human rights activist from over 40 countries in the world have converged in Rwanda for a nine-day UNESCO regional forum. This is a milestone for Rwanda as it becomes the first country in African to host the global Inter-generational Forum on Human Rights. Over 20 percent of the total population of the country was [...]
New York, December 29, 2009—A Cameroonian newspaper editor, jailed this month after publishing a book excerpt that alleged sexual activities by President Paul Biya, was convicted on Monday of “insulting the head of state.” Judge Ibrahim Ba sentenced Jean-Bosco Talla, managing editor of the weekly Germinal, to a one-year suspended term and a fine [...]
New York, December 15, 2009—The managing editor of a private newspaper in Cameroon has been held in police custody since Thursday, accused of insulting President Paul Biya, according to local journalists and news reports. Managing Editor Jean-Bosco Talla of the weekly Germinal was picked up by police in the capital, Yaoundé, on Thursday and taken [...]
