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Nyagatare - Six people died and more than 30 others were injured after a building collapsed in northeastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as they called off rescue efforts a day after the accident. "Six people working on the site died as the result of the building collapse," Rwanda's police said in a statement. "The search and rescue mission...has been completed
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"I am still shocked by the news. I was very confident of the club winning trophies but that will now be under more threat." That was the reaction of 25-year-old Johnson Mugabo, a banker, to the news that Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United and the most successful English football coach, has announced he will resign on May 18
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Many Rwandans have sound reasons as to why marriage age must remain at 21 and not 18 as proposed in the draft law governing persons and family, Parliament heard yesterday. Lawmakers on Parliament's Standing Committee on Political Affairs and Gender were debating the Bill, which seeks to amend the 1988 law to align it with the Constitution, the Penal Code,
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The United Nations has been hit by a second war crimes court dispute in a week with Rwanda trying to stop the UN Security Council praising the International Criminal Court. The storm comes only days after the United States boycotted a UN General Assembly debate where Serbia's president launched a fierce attack on international war crimes courts. Rwanda is organizing
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The Hague - Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, telling a judge he was innocent of charges ranging from murder and rape to using child soldiers. The man known as "The Terminator" appeared with a shaved head, thin moustache and wearing a black suit and dark blue tie after
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A Rwandan man, who faces charges of genocide allegedly carried out during the country's 1994 massacre, lost his appeal on Friday against extradition from Denmark. The Copenhagen court of appeal upheld a lower court's November ruling that found a justice ministry decision to extradite the man was legal. The 50-year-old school teacher, whose name was not released but is referred
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The two main Rwandan opposition parties in exile in a statement Monday accused President Paul Kagame of seeking to amend the constitution to have a third term in office. The Unified Democratic Forces (FDU) and the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) held a joint meeting in the South African city Johannesburg that ended late on Sunday. "The meeting condemns in the
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Berlin Government has announced its decision to release the Aid to Rwanda following its suspension over UN accusations that Rwanda was backing M23, a rebel group in DRC; Germany will be releasing €21Million (US$26m) Germany Minister for International Cooperation announced the decision following an official visit of Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo to Bundestag Berlin, on behalf of the government
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The condom distribution debate rages in Rwanda. While the government and the country's religious groups oppose the idea of disseminating birth control at school, some young Rwandans see this as a real means for preventing underage pregnancies and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Although it's engaged in a massive campaign to promote the use of condoms, the Rwandan government is still
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has warned countries to prepare for four emerging challenges, including aid cuts. 'Africa's growing cities would be uninhabitable without clean water, adequate sanitation, reliable and affordable electricity supply and mass transit systems'.- Dr. Donald Kaberuka, AfDB President Dr. Donald Kaberuka, the bank's president, said in pursuing the continent's diverse infrastructure priorities, there is need to
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Kigali - Rwanda will not support the UN plans to use surveillance drones against rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo unless legal and security questions around their deployment are answered, the country's foreign minister said on Monday. The UN is currently looking to strengthen its peacekeeping mission in DRC, where army mutineers have launched a rebel movement in the
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HER last tweet says it all. It is a short tweet but packed with a compelling message that brings out the values she so cherished in her life that was cut short at the age of 48. She had a special passion for the well being of children and family values; perhaps this explains why she began and ended her
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Britain said on Friday it was withholding £21m of aid to Rwanda because of reports the African state is supporting rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The UK, Rwanda's largest bilateral donor, is the latest Western partner to freeze aid to Kigali following an independent United Nations report that Rwanda is behind an eight-month-old rebellion responsible for the worst
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The series of prostitute murders that occurred this summer in Rwanda's capital has revived debate on the world's oldest profession. On the whole, the country's very modest population opposes the legalization of prostitution. However, some young people, not to mention the workers themselves, are promoting more pragmatic solutions for safety in the sex industry. This past July in a populous
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Samsung Electronics Ltd has signed an agreement with the government to facilitate the rollout of information technology solutions. Samsung is a South Korean conglomerate whose industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics, which is seen as one of the world's largest information technology companies. The partnership is expected to play a key role in bridging the country's digital divide while boosting its
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Rwandan and Congolese groups opposed to Rwanda President Paul Kagame's rule have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate him for alleged war crimes for backing rebel groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the Hague, Netherlands-based court has not said whether she plans to investigate Kagame. She is already investigating militia leaders in DRC with
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A growing number of European governments is joining an international diplomatic drive to press President Paul Kagame's government into ending support for rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Germany and Britain have joined the Netherlands in recent days in suspending aid to Rwanda, in response to a recent report by a group of United Nations experts which said
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Decisions by international donors to withdraw aid to Rwanda are "hasty" and "based on flimsy evidence", Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo reportedly has said. Britain on Saturday joined The Netherlands and United States in withholding aid donations following allegations that Rwanda backed M23 rebels, led by Bosco Ntaganda in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Ntaganda is wanted by the International
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Rwanda and France have signed a memorandum of understanding that clears the way for Paris to provide training to Rwandan physicians, especially in cancer treatment and plastic surgery. The MOU was signed Monday by the Rwandan Minister of Health Agnes Binagwaho and Chantal Bes, the first adviser to the French ambassador in Kigali, a communiqué issued by the Rwandan government
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The High Court today adjourned its ruling on Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and her four co-accused to September 7. Presiding Judge Alice Rulisa said that her team had not finalised analysing the case and needed more time. Ingabire is accused of complicity in a terrorist group, denial of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, planning to cause state insecurity and divisionism,
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UN sanctions experts have "overwhelming evidence" that Rwanda has breached an arms embargo to aid rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a report obtained by AFP. Kigali has strongly denied accusations of involvement in a new rebellion in eastern DR Congo, but the UN Security Council on Tuesday published an annex to a report by the sanctions
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Rwanda's foreign minister said Monday that "disingenuous" accusations by neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo over involvement in an anti-government mutiny risked stirring up conflict in the region. Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo strongly condemned "rumors and reports" about Rwanda's backing for rebels in eastern DR Congo she said had encouraged the kind of "rhetoric" that existed before Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Mushikawabo
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UN experts have evidence Rwanda's defence minister and two top military officials have been backing an army mutiny in the east of neighbouring Congo, according to notes of their briefing to a closed-door UN committee on Thursday. The evidence is the strongest yet to indicate high-level support within President Paul Kagame's government for the so-called M23 rebellion, whose stand-off with
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Rwanda's former army chief told a South African court Thursday that he was shot two years ago for defying President Paul Kagame, as he testified in the trial of six men accused of attempting to kill him. "The reasons why I would think anyone would want me dead is that I have over the years defied the leadership, in particular
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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, yesterday, handed a life sentence to the former military officer Ildephonse Nizeyimana. He was convicted of killing thousands of Tutsi, including Queen Rosalie Gicanda, the widow of King Mutara Rudahigwa III. Nizeyimana was found guilty of other charges, including extermination and murder as crimes against humanity. The tribunal, however, found the former military officer
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