Tag: Rwanda
Paul Rusesabagina, Hotel Rwanda hero, charged with terrorism
Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, appeared in a Rwandan court on…
Rwandan officials donate salary to back Coronavirus battle
Cabinet members and other senior government officials in Rwanda have promised to donate their April salary to show solidarity with…
Coronavirus: Soldiers arrested for raping women during lockdown
Five Rwandan soldiers have been arrested after residents of a slum in the capital, Kigali, alleged that they raped women…
What Rwanda’s Chief Justice says on corruption
Rwanda's Chief Justice Faustin Ntezilyayo on Thursday said there was need for concrete actions to plug loopholes in the fight…
Rwanda gets new foreign, internal security ministers, in shake up
Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday evening reshuffled the cabinet, appointing a new foreign minister and and another one for…
Rwanda opposition politician stabbed to death
Syridio Dusabumuremyi, a prominent opposition politician in Rwanda has been stabbed to death, the BBC has reported quoting the victim's…
Rwanda ready to curtail outbreak of Ebola – Ministry
With the air distance between the two countries just 979 miles, Rwanda has spoken of its readiness to check the…
Rwanda denies closing border with Congo DR
Rwanda’s health minister said the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo remained open on Thursday, appearing to contradict an…
Ebola scare: Rwanda shuts DR Congo border, Tshisekedi furious
Rwanda has provoked the fury of President Felix Tshisekedi, after it shuttered its frontier with Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo,…
Ebola: Rwanda closes border with DRC
Rwanda has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a deadly Ebola outbreak that started a…
Rwanda inaugurates water treatment plants
The Rwandan government on Monday inaugurated new water treatment plants to ease access to clean water for residents of the…
Obasanjo, others lay wreaths marking 25th anniversary of Rwanda Genocide
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was among world leaders, former and present who laid wreaths on Sunday morning at Kigali…
Rwanda honours victims of genocide 25 years after
Rwandans gathered on Sunday to begin a solemn commemoration of the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered during…
25 years after genocide: Rwanda is emerging like a colossus – Obasanjo
Adejoke Adeleye/Abeokuta Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday reflected on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and declared that…
Corruption: Rwanda recommends online assets declaration for Nigeria
The Rwandan Government Board (RGB) says online assets declaration by public office holders is one of the methods that can…