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Millicom International Cellular, the global telecommunications company that operates under the Tigo brand has just launched its mobile phone services to the Rwandan market.
The Central Bank Governor, François Kanimba, has said that overall economic growth is expected to grow by between four to five percent, down from earlier projections of 5.3 and 7 percent.
RWANDA'S Amavubi Stars are desperate to make it up to their fans in the upcoming Orange Cecafa Challenge Cup.
Cyprus Institute of Marketing (CIM) is set to establish its learning centre in Rwanda, according Yango Hadjyannis, the Institute's Deputy Director.
Rwanda's national carrier, Rwandair has signed contracts with two Rwandan pilots ahead of the arrival of its two 50 sitter CRJ200 aircrafts by the end December 2009, Management said on Tuesday.
PUGILISTS from different local boxing clubs have stepped up their preparations for next month's national club championships.
The alleged embezzlement case against six military officials of Horizon Construction Company resumes today at the Military Tribunal in Nyamirambo, the military prosecution has revealed.
About 400 lawyers from the East African Community have arrived in the country for the 14th Annual General Assembly and Conference to be held in Rwanda for the first time. About 600 were expected to attend the meeting.
The government is working on a national strategic plan to combat desertification and land degradation, a plan that officials say is in its final stages.
Traffic Police Unit members should refrain from confiscating drivers' documents and government should inform the latter not to surrender their road documents, the Parliament was informed yesterday.
The United Nations Security Council's tenuous authority in Africa has been further threatened by an explosive new report from a UN Group of Experts* showing wide-ranging violations of the arms embargo on Congo-Kinshasa by both Western and African states.
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.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is ramping up efforts to feed tens of thousand of Congolese who fled a recent outbreak of tribal violence in north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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.
Burundian authorities should immediately retract an ordinance outlawing the Forum for the Strengthening of Civil Society (FORSC), an umbrella organization representing 146 Burundian civil society associations, said Amnesty International, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, and Human Rights Watch in a joint statement issued today. The government should also end threats and ...
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".
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