Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Great Lakes region.
Some elements in the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) are allegedly conniving and facilitating the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels, The New Times has reliably learnt.
President Paul Kagame yesterday met and held talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak as part of his ongoing visit to the northern African country.
The prosecution in the case of Innocent Irankunda, 24, who was falsely trying to acquire political asylum in Germany, yesterday requested court to hand him a 20 year jail sentence upon conviction.
Balton Rwanda, a subsidiary company of Balton CP, is targeting to support the connection of the one laptop per child project (OLPC) which enables all primary school children to own computers.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) yesterday sentenced the former head of the Rwandan Tea Authority (OCIR-Thé) Michel Bagaragaza to eight years in prison.
On November 02, President Paul KAGAME addressed a London Leadership Summit on Private Equity In Africa. We re-produce the speech he delivered at the summit.
The newly established Political Party (Partie Sociale IMBERAKURI) is reportedly embroiled in wrangles after its Secretary General Noel Hakizimfura broke away with few other senior party members protesting the leadership of the current party head, Bernard Ntaganda.
A total of 200 troops of the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) yesterday returned in the country after a one-year peacekeeping stint under the AU-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
The long-awaited guidelines on the standard criteria for classification of hotels and other tourism facilities have been launched.
As part of its proactive approach to solve the outstanding backlog of unsolved land disputes in the districts under its jurisdiction, Kigali City Council (KCC) on Wednesday publicly quizzed authorities of Kicukiro District on several cases it had failed to solve.
A total of 76 Rwandan Students were yesterday awarded post graduate degrees, undergraduate degrees and diplomas in various disciplines at Kampala International University (KIU) in Uganda.
The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a United Nations tribunal over his role in the African country's 1994 genocide.
In a bid to enforce high tax compliance levels and crack down on tax evasion, Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) has vowed to expose the names of companies and individuals who have failed to honour their obligation to pay taxes.
UGANDA'S U-20 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier against Rwanda in Kigali tomorrow has been shifted to a yet undisclosed venue sparking off a protest from the coach Majidah Nantanda.
