Rwanda News

• Rwanda: Govt Upbeat After Completion of Fibre Optic Cable Rollout

  Kigali — The Minister in Charge of ICT in the President's Office, Ignace Gatare, has told the Senate that the first phase of ICT project, named National Backbone, is complete, and it was full steam ahead for Fibre Optic Cable post-installation activities. Gatare, who appeared before the Upper House to respond to Senators' queries, last Thursday, said the initial phase
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 14th Mar, 2011 at 02:15PM in Business    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Gov't to Focus On Trade Deficit, Unemployment

  Kigali — The Government will direct more efforts towards reducing the trade deficit the country is facing as well as tackling unemployment. The two were identified as the biggest and most urgent challenges the country is faced with during the just concluded National Leadership Retreat. During the retreat in Rubavu District, attended by over 200 government officials, it was observed
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 6th Mar, 2011 at 11:22PM in Business    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Local Tour Company Woos Visitors From Germany

  Victoria International, a local company specializing in Travel & Tours, yesterday, welcomed 36 tourists from Germany. The 36 tourists who arrived in 12 chartered planes, will travel across the country, including the Virunga Mountains. They are on an African tour that began in North Africa plan to be in the country for two days before proceeding to southern Africa. 'We
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 6th Mar, 2011 at 06:58PM in Business    Source:Daily Business  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Prisons Have Been Decongested - Harerimana

  Kigali — Rwanda's prisons will reduce their inmate overcrowding from 120 to 108 percent this year, Internal Security Minister, Sheikh Mussa Fazil Harerimana, announced yesterday. The Minister was speaking to Sunday Times in an interview shortly before officially opening a two-day meeting that attracted prisons chiefs from the East African Community. The prisons chiefs are discussing how to implement the
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 6th Mar, 2011 at 06:45PM in General    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Rwanda looks to vasectomy to tackle population growth

  Rwandan domestic worker John Rutaremara plans to sign up for a "no-scalpel" vasectomy as soon as it becomes available in Africa's most densely populated country: he has two children and cannot afford more. His is a fairly unusual decision for sub-Saharan Africa where vasectomies are rare amid a widespread but misguided belief that it is tantamount to castration and impairs
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 6th Mar, 2011 at 09:38AM in General    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Rwanda: MTN Drops Roaming Charges

  MTN Rwanda has decided to scrap cross border roaming charges for its customers when they use the service in Uganda, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland and Zambia. According to company officials, the decision follows complaints from its subscribers that the receiving fee of Rwf60 per minute was too high. The operator introduced the fee, last year, saying it wanted to trim
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 5th Mar, 2011 at 11:12AM in Business    Source:Business Daily  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Musanze Bakeries Closed Over Poor Sanitation

  A team of inspectors from the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS), Thursday, closed three bakeries in Musanze town due to poor sanitation. During a three-day inspection of small scale processing industries and shops, the RBS also seized over 50 jerry cans of honey imported from Tanzania. The RBS, industry inspection/market surveillance, team was accompanied by the local authorities to asses
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 4th Mar, 2011 at 10:04PM in Health    Source:Leadership  1  Comment

• Rwanda: School Demolished While Children Are in Class

  Kigali — About 125 pupils of Kigali Starlight School were left in shock as their school was demolished by Kimironko sector authorities on Wednesday. The school is owned by Seed of Hope Association and run by Hope Mutesi, who said that she never got a chance to discuss with the authorities what the problem was. "I just got the demolition
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 4th Mar, 2011 at 12:27PM in Education    Source:Vanguard  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Rwanda jails opposition leader, fines 3 others

  

  KIGALI, Rwanda – Rwanda's High Court has sentenced an opposition leader to four years in prison.
  
  Bernard Ntaganda of the PS-Imberakuri was sentenced Friday for endangering national security, attempting to organize unauthorized protests and inciting ethnic divisions.
  
  Three members of another opposition party, FDU-Inkingi, were fined.
  
  Human Rights Watch says
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 12th Feb, 2011 at 11:19AM in Politics    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Rwandan rebel says he is innocent

  

  The Hague - A Rwandan rebel has told international war crimes judges that he was not involved in an alleged murderous 2009 campaign for power in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  
  Callixte Mbarushimana has made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court since he was handed over by French authorities on Tuesday. He was arrested
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 28th Jan, 2011 at 12:26PM in General    Source:Daily Champion  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Rwandan rebel leader to face ICC

  

  The Hague - Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana made his first appearance on Friday before the International Criminal Court where he faces charges of murder, torture and rape of Congolese civilians in 2009.
  
  "My name is Mbarushimana, Callixte. I was born in Rwanda, in Ruhengeri. I am a computer engineer," he told a panel of three
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 28th Jan, 2011 at 10:32AM in General    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Rwanda: 2 Opposition together on Rwanda's Kagame

  

  Two Rwandan opposition parties said Wednesday they had formed a joint strategy to fight the "dictatorship, discrimination and marginalisation" of President Paul Kagame's government.
  
  The Unified Democratic Forces of jailed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire and the Rwanda National Congress, led by four former Kagame allies, said the current Kigali government would drive the country into chaos
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 26th Jan, 2011 at 04:19PM in Politics    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Hutu rebel leader to face charges of war crimes

  

  Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana was delivered to the International Criminal Court in The Hague yesterday to face charges of murder, torture and rape of Congolese civilians in 2009.
  
  Identified as a top leader of the FDLR Hutu rebel group alleged to have "spread terror" in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mbarushimana arrived under police escort
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 26th Jan, 2011 at 07:15AM in General    Source:AFP  0  Comments

• Rwanda: France sends Rwandan Hutu to war crimes tribunal

  

  France is transferring exiled Rwandan Hutu rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana to the International Criminal Court to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
  
  French authorities arrested Mbarushimana last October on a warrant issued by the ICC in September for charges of murders, rape, torture and destruction of property in the
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 25th Jan, 2011 at 02:39PM in General    Source:Daily Champion  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Protect journos, Rwanda told

  

  Western countries in the UN human rights council on Monday urged Rwanda to protect journalists after raising concerns about attacks and restrictions on freedom of speech.
  
  "While acknowledging Rwanda's painful history with the misuse of the media to foment violence, we note that the suppression of free speech has also led to bloodshed and violence," US
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 25th Jan, 2011 at 09:11AM in General    Source:Daily Champion  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Rwanda ex-military chief 'has formed rebel group'

  

  The Rwandan army said Saturday its former chief of staff and an ex-spy chief, both exiled in South Africa, have formed a rebel group operating in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
  
  Army spokesman Jill Rutaremara said ex-military chief General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa and former head of intelligence Patrick Karegeya were a subject of discussion during a
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 22nd Jan, 2011 at 12:57PM in General    Source:SAPA  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Rwanda opposition leader denied bail

  

  A Rwandan court on Thursday refused for the fourth time to grant bail to opposition leader Victoire Ingabire who has been in detention since her arrest in October over terrorism charges.
  
  The High Court rejected her bail application and she will remain in custody until her next bail appeal or trial, whose date has not been
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 20th Jan, 2011 at 07:00PM in General    Source:Daily Champion  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Rwandan genocide trial opens in Germany

  

  A former Rwandan mayor went on trial Tuesday accused of ordering three Tutsi massacres during the country's 1994 genocide, in the first such case prosecuted in Germany.
  
  Onesphore Rwabukombe, a 54-year-old ethnic Hutu, is accused of genocide, murder and incitement to commit both at the higher regional court in the western city of Frankfurt.
  
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 18th Jan, 2011 at 11:49PM in General    Source:Staff Writer  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Suspects involved in the Rwandan genocide trail begins

  

  The trial of a top Rwandan genocide suspect, a former army captain nicknamed the "Butcher of Butare", began on Monday before the UN tribunal trying masterminds of the 1994 mass killings.
  
  Captain Ildephonse Nizeyimana is accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes which he denied in earlier hearings after his arrest and transfer to
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 18th Jan, 2011 at 11:44AM in General    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Four Rwandan ex-top officials handed jail terms

  

  A Rwandan military court on Friday handed jail terms of between 20 and 24 years to four former comrades-in-arms of President Paul Kagame, tried in absentia for threatening state security.
  
  "The Military High Court has sentenced to 24 years in prison the former army chief of staff General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa and Major Theogene Rudasingwa," a
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 14th Jan, 2011 at 06:53PM in General    Source:AFP  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Parish Father in Police grib for Frustrating Govt Policies

  

  Rwamagana — Father Emile Nsengiyunva, 45, of Karenge Parish was, yesterday, arrested by Police in Rwamagana, for allegedly engaging in disruptive politics.
  
  Authorities said that the Catholic clergyman has been excommunicating Christians involved in eradicating grass thatched houses, commonly known as Nyakatsi, and family planning campaigns.
  
  This was revealed to The New Times
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 30th Dec, 2010 at 12:01PM in General    Source:allafrica  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Harvard Students hosted by Rwandan Paul Kagame

  

  Urugwiro Village — President Paul Kagame, on Tuesday evening, hosted a group of 18 students from Harvard Kennedy School, at Urugwiro Village.
  
  The students have been in the country for the last 10 days, getting a first-hand account of Rwanda's remarkable transformation journey.
  
  During their stay, the students interacted with top government officials,
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 23rd Dec, 2010 at 10:29AM in Education    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Rwanda: 1994 Rwandan genocide charges on Hutu rebel Leader

  

  A French judge has charged exiled Rwandan Hutu rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana over his alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a source close to the case told AFP on Wednesday.

  The 47-year-old former "executive secretary" of the Hutu guerrilla FDLR, who had been living in France as a computer technician, was on Tuesday charged with
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 22nd Dec, 2010 at 08:48PM in General    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Rwanda: National Dialogue ends with higher aims

  

  The 8th National Dialogue (Umushyikirano), ended, yesterday, on a high note with President Paul Kagame calling for renewed efforts to achieve the targets set during the two-day meeting.
  
  In his closing remarks, President Kagame commended the resolutions that were adopted after the meeting, saying that the dialogue presented a good platform to plot the way forward
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 22nd Dec, 2010 at 06:05PM in General    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Rwanda: Hutu Rebel leaders indicted in Germany

  

  Berlin - German prosecutors said on Friday that two senior Rwandan Hutu rebel leaders have been indicted on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
  
  Ignace Murwanashyaka, political leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), and his deputy Straton Musoni were arrested in southern Germany in November 2009.
  
  
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 17th Dec, 2010 at 03:36PM in General    Source:Africanews  0  Comments