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As Rwanda applies this week to join the Commonwealth, the international grouping dominated by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record.
Conditions in Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.
An American-Slovak investment group, Bay View, has pledged to remain firm and committed to the continued investment in Rwanda for the development of human resources and socio-economic development of the country.
A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month.
United Nations peacekeepers are going beyond the call of duty in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), not only protecting local civilians from rebel militia but also helping them boost agricultural output as well as resurfacing roads and refurbishing a school.
One of the guards of a provincial governor in Burundi seriously beat up a man in early November in a dispute over land and property. The man died after a few days in hospital. The case received wide media coverage in Burundi, with human rights organizations condemning the incident and calling for legal action to be taken against the perpetrator.
The ink has dried on the EAC Common Market Protocol and now it's time for business.
France has in a rare message welcomed the recent arrest of two top FDLR leaders in Germany, describing their detention as a "positive development."
The Gacaca court of Ngoma recently sentenced in absentia a former vice Rector of the National University of Rwanda (NUR) to life imprisonment with special provisions for his role in the 1994 Genocide at the university, in which over 400 students and staff died.
The wife to Kenyan Prime Minister, Ida Odinga, has called on all nations to boost the nutritional needs of their populations, especially that of mothers and infants, as a strategy of achieving sustainable development.
A total of 10 out of the 34 LRA rebel fighters who surrendered to the UPDF in Faradje in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week, have been flown back to Uganda.
The nucleus of the ruling MPLA party's youth wing (JMPLA) in Canada, over the weekend ran in Toronto city, a talk on "Angola and the history of the conquest of Independence".
A donation comprising several foodstuff for the Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who have been assembled at Damba shelter centre, shall be transported this Tuesday to northern Uije province, ANGOP has learnt.
About seven fields were cleared of landmines and explosive devices in central Bie, during the third quarter of this year by the British Non Government Organization, The Hallo Trust.
The National Criminal Investigation Department (DNIC) is improving its working methods with view to satisfactorily respond to fighting against crime in the country.
The inspector-general of higher education, Madeira Pereira, Monday in Luanda called on university students for greater engagement in researching activities, for a better quality of teaching and learning.
Animal Rights Africa says dozens of bare-handed people kill the animal in a cruel and undignified way.
The Bishop of the northern Uije Province, Dom Emílio Sumbelelo, has advised Catholic church youths, and others, to attend technical and professional academic and religious training courses to contribute to the retrieval of ethical and moral values in this society.
The Angolan minister of Science and Technology, Cândida Teixeira, advised Sunday in Luanda, Angolan young women to engage in training, especially in courses of social sciences, for the country's continuous growth.
Recommendations excerpted from the CHRI's report on an application for membership of the Commonwealth by Rwanda:
John Mirenge, chairman of RwandAir was pacing up and down from the intensive care unit to the reception at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali. His phone was ringing off the hook. Calls were coming in from all corners of the world inquiring about the November 12 RwandAir accident at Kigali International Airport. The victims had been rushed to the hospital.
UGANDANS intending to travel to Angola for the 2010 African Cup of Nations will not have to travel to Tanzania for visas following the opening of the Angolan embassy in Kampala.
The School of Journalism and Communications has acquired a building on the campus of Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) to pave way for the long-awaited transfer of the school to Kigali.
SILVERBACKS' hopes of pushing for silverware at this weekend's Nakuru 7s have been frustrated by reports that the team will be without three of its top players.
East African Growers (EAG) has temporarily suspended its business operations in Rwanda citing unfavourable prices for its exports in the European market.
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