Full Coverage: Rwanda

14.10.2009 The Congolese government’s military operation in eastern Congo, backed by UN peacekeepers and aimed at neutralising the threat from a Rwandan Hutu militia group, has resulted in an unacceptable cost for the civilian population, says an NGO coalition.
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20.07.2009 A Rwandan group is praised for recognising people who went out of their way to save Tutsis fleeing for their lives during the 1994 genocide.
+ Rwanda's Commonwealth hopes dented by human rights criticism

16.06.2009 Rwanda's Science and technology Minister, Professor Romain Murenzi, says science and technology will be at the heart of his country's development strategies.

08.06.2009 Critics of Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid are missing the point. Worse still, by conducting the debate on her territory, they provide fodder for the anti-aid media circus and damage prospects for the Copenhagen climate change negotiations.

24.01.2009 The arrest by Rwanda of the leader of a Congolese anti-government militia could lead to the discharge of hundreds of child soldiers, says a children's charity.

03.11.2008 Tensions with Rwanda and illegal mineral mining are the major underlying issues which must be addressed to establish lasting peace in Congo, a development group said today as it called for the UK government to use its influence to stop intervention by foreign armies.
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01.07.2008 A new project is being launched to support conflict survivors in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

21.04.2008 Uganda Telecom has started work on a fiber-optic link from the western town of Mbarara in Uganda to the Rwanda border-crossing point at Katuna - essentially giving a major boost to the long-awaited regional fibre project, RNA has learnt.

14.04.2008 Since the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women have gained almost equal representation in the national legislature's lower chamber and have used this advancement to make "remarkable contributions to rebuild their society," write Elizabeth Powley and Elizabeth Pearson.

04.04.2008 Members of ethnic groups once pitted against each other in Rwanda's brutal civil war are now rebuilding community ties and helping each other fight poverty through an innovative program that gives small-scale farmers "peace" cows.

01.02.2008 The Rwandan genocide was triggered by the killing of the country's president in April 1994. The identity of the assassins remains one of the great mysteries of the 20th century. Now a new witness has emerged, alleging French involvement, says Linda Melvern.
From Prospect

11.01.2008 All Rwandans at the cell level could have access to ICT facilities by the end of next year if plans presented by district mayors yesterday are implemented. A cell is the second lowest administrative level.

06.11.2007 Successful government reforms have helped Rwanda reach second place (in a tie with Finland) on the latest Gender Equity Index.
From: New Times (Kigali)

04.11.2007 A piece of verbatim theatre based on the words of prisoners and guards from Nazi concentration camps has been given a twist in a current London production - it is performed by Rwandans and Congolese who bring to the stage their closeness to a more recent genocide.

02.11.2007 President Paul Kagame has indicated to the One-Laptop-Per-Child project that government will buy laptops from the new sales promotion scheme 'Give 1 and Get 1' (GIGI), RNA has learnt from a senior official behind the plan.

18.10.2007 Thirteen years after their own holocaust, a company of actors from Rwanda come to London to perform a play about Auschwitz.

22.08.2007 Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.

26.07.2007 Officers of RwandaÂ’s National Police Force have killed at least 20 detainees since November, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Killing detainees is not the way to establish a state of law, says the human rights group.
From: Human Rights Watch

22.03.2007 The Rwandan government has announced a new national family planning program, but aid organizations warn this program must be voluntary, and should not offer any incentives or disincentives when it comes to childbearing.

29.12.2006 Four Rwandans who settled in Britain were last night arrested in a coordinated operation after their home country sought their extradition in connection with its 1994 genocide.