April 06, 2007
Rwanda: Former President Pardoned
Pasteur Bizimungu, the former president of Rwanda, has been released from prison after receiving a pardon from current President Paul Kagame. Read more »
November 20, 2006
Rwanda: Second Annual National Conference on Pediatric Aids Opens
National attention is focused on Kigali as the Second National Paediatric Conference on Treatment, Care and Support to Children Infected and Affected by HIV and Aids opens Monday.… Read more »
June 02, 2006
Rwanda: President Kagame Seeks U.S. Support for Rebuilding Country
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed on Wednesday that their two governments will work together to end the conflict in the Darfur region of… Read more »
October 25, 2005
Rwanda: Educators Explore Ways to Meet Millennium Development Goals
Heads of two vastly different school systems have met in New York City this week to share ideas on the major restructuring challenge they both face. Rwanda's minister of Education,… Read more »
June 29, 2005
Rwanda: 'History Repeats But Doesn't Teach,' Rwanda Hotel Hero Tells Students
Paul Rusesabagina, the courageous hotel manager portrayed by Don Cheadle in the film "Hotel Rwanda," has received many honors and addressed numerous gatherings since he emerged as… Read more »
June 12, 2005
Africa: G8 Debt Agreement to Benefit 23 African Countries; Separate Deal for Nigeria Mooted
The agreement on 100% debt relief for developing countries announced by finance ministers from the eight largest industrial nations on Saturday initially benefits 14 nations in… Read more »
December 15, 2004
Rwanda: Conflict With DRC Inevitable Without Action From the International Community - Top Official
In the past few months, Rwanda's government has increasingly insisted on action from the international community to combat the threat it says is posed by the ex-FAR, Rwanda's… Read more »
August 17, 2004
Congo-Kinshasa: Scramble for Resources in DRC Leads to Massive Deaths, But Scant Attention
With an estimated 3.5 million Congolese dead over the last six years due to war, starvation and disease, the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the… Read more »
July 21, 2004
Rwanda: Ladies First: The Role of Women in Rwanda's Nation Building
In the aftermath of a devastating period of civil war and genocide in the 1990s, the challenges of nation building are the hallmark of today's Rwanda. Currently in Rwanda, the need… Read more »
June 06, 2004
Congo-Kinshasa: Rwandan Involvement and Rebel Advance Makes Stepped Up UN Action Essential, Says Congo Ambassador
"Very credible eyewitnesses who have seen boats crossing the lake from Rwanda" going towards Kalehe and Biraa and Bukavu say they contained Rwandan soldiers, according to the… Read more »
May 19, 2004
Africa: Rome Concert Launches a Movement, Says Quincy Jones
If the days of concerts for a cause having an impact are over, producer Quincy Jones hasn't noticed. "You know, it's not really a concert," he told a reporter for Metro… Read more »
January 09, 2004
Rwanda: School-Going Girls Learn 'We Too Can Be Engineers,' Rwandan Teenager Tells Educators
In sub-Saharan Africa, 24 million girls did not attend school in 2002, according to the annual State of the World's Children report released last month by the United Nations'… Read more »
July 26, 2003
Africa: 'I Hope To Be Of Service' Says Mazimhaka
Patrick Mazimhaka, outgoing presidential advisor to the Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame, was elected vice-chairman of the African Union Commission at the recent AU summit in Maputo,… Read more »
July 17, 2003
Central Africa: Rwanda's Kagame Promises Fair Election, Cautious on Prospects for Peace in Great Lakes Region
Rwandans go to the polls next month in the first presidential elections since the genocide in 1994, when between 800,000 and one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed by Hutu… Read more »
March 06, 2003
Central Africa: Rwanda President Sees Hopeful Signs in Great Lakes Region
"We are moving forward," declared Rwandan president Paul Kagame, comparing the current circumstances in the conflict-prone Great Lakes region of central Africa to the climate when… Read more »
January 26, 2003
Congo-Kinshasa: Accusations 'Ridiculous' Says Rwanda's US Envoy
Charges made last week by Vital Kamerhe, the Democratic Republic of Congo's commissioner-general in charge of negotiations in the Great Lakes region, that a Rwandan-created "new… Read more »
January 21, 2003
Congo-Kinshasa: Peace Process Threatened by Uganda and Rwanda Militias, Warns DRC Negotiator
Continuing violence backed by Rwanda and Uganda in Ituri and Kivu provinces, as well as in other areas could "derail" the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),… Read more »
January 03, 2003
Rwanda: U.S. Official Foresees Arrest of Rwanda's Most-Wanted War Criminal in Kenya
With the inauguration this week of a new Kenyan president, Rwanda's most sought-after fugitive, Félicien Kabuga, has lost his protection, according to the United States… Read more »
August 27, 2002
Africa: Keeping An Eye On War Crimes And Criminals -- Ambassador Prosper
From Rwanda and Sudan in the east to Sierra Leone and Liberia in the west, alleged perpetrators of heinous acts of violence are under scrutiny, both within Africa and from world… Read more »
August 08, 2002
Central Africa: Hutus Can be Disarmed in 90 Days if Congo is Serious, Says Rwanda
In a peace deal reached last week, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo promised to disarm and arrest thousands of Hutu rebels, or interahamwe, and ex-members of the… Read more »
August 07, 2002
Rwanda: Fugitive War Criminals Moving Across The Region
War criminals sought by the the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda "transit" between countries in the region, according to Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. ambassador at large… Read more »
July 31, 2002
Central Africa: Pretoria Pact "A Positive Step", Says Rwandan President
"Without peace in this region, without peace and development in central Africa we couldn't possibly talk about peace in the rest of Africa". The words of the South African… Read more »
Central Africa: Kabila Says He Wants Peace and Will Get It
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo says he is optimistic about the latest South African and United Nations' brokered peace initiative to end the war in his country,… Read more »
July 30, 2002
Central Africa: Kabila And Kagame Sign Ambitious Congo Peace Deal
South African President Thabo Mbeki described the signing Tuesday of a highly ambitious peace accord between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda as "a bright day for the… Read more »
Central Africa: Congo, Rwanda to Sign Landmark Security Pact, but Peace Not Guaranteed
The presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are expected to sign an agreement, in South Africa, Tuesday, that may be the first step towards helping end the… Read more »