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 [...]
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 [...]
