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  • Belgian soldiers on trial for Tutsi Genocide crimes

    Brussels: Three Belgian soldiers are on trial in Brussels charged with mass murder during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The case, which began on Wednesday, also implicates the state of Belgium. ...
  • Grégoire Ndahimana Genocide trail starts at ICTR

    Arusha: The man who had a $5m US bounty on his head before he was arrested by Congolese, UN and American undercover detectives last year saw his trail begin on Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. ...
  • Anti-war protesters throw eggs, shoes at Tony Blair

    Kigali: Eggs and shoes were hurled at Tony Blair in Dublin (Ireland) where the former British Premier – and now unpaid advisor to President Kagame was signing copies of his new book on Saturday, reports said. ...
  • Sudanese ‘Janjaweed’ kill 57 in Darfur market

    Kigali: Fifty-seven (57) people were killed and 86 injured in an attack Thursday afternoon on a market southwest of El Fasher, the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur – where some 3560 Rwanda peacekeepers are operating, according to witnesses and UN offi...
  • Africa needs both aid and fair trade to fight poverty – UN chief

    Kigali: Africans need both foreign aid and fairer trading terms with other regions to achieve the poverty reduction and social development targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 deadline, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said....
  • RwandAir to be sold after becoming profitable – Finance Minister

    Kigali: Government has set aside $98 million as capital for the struggling and loss-making national airline RwandAir over the next three years with a view to then selling it off once it breaks even, the Finance Minister said. ...
  • Green Party clarifies on RNA story

    In reference to the News Article: Green Party defends RPA soldiers against UN Genocide charge, delivered from our statement: Democratic Green Party of Rwanda’s Stand on Crimes against Humanity; http://rwandagreendemocrats.org/spip.php?article102. ...
  • Is it time for tourism dollars to stay in Rwanda? (Special report)

    Marriot International Hotels, coming to Kigali says it would prefer to employ Rwandans, and this Akilah Institute is working to provide them (Photo: Margaret Cappa) Kigali: Ten years ago, Rwanda earned $50million from tourism but that rocketed above $2...
  • IFC says Rwanda leasing sector expanded 10 fold in three years

    Kigali: The International Finance Corporation (IFC) reports that the leasing sector in the country has turned into a multi-million dollar business – expanding up to ten times compared to when it was started in 2006, RNA reports. ...
  • Rwandan speaks on Mozambique riots over high food prices

    Maputo: Mozambique is in the midst of destructive riots over high costs of living after government increased food and fuel prices by more 30 percent in just a week. At least 10 people have died and tens of dozens injured after the security agencies opened...
  • ICTR: Officer claims “thugs” looted and killed in Genocide

    The witness told the chamber that these machete-wielding militias were “youths who were thugs with no identification” Arusha: Dismissing the available information that the militia youths that massacred Tutsis had been trained by government with ass...
  • Campaigners fear Darfur slaughter after Rwanda troop pull-out

    Kigali: Campaign groups operating in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur fear the joint AU/UN force (UNAMID) keeping a fragile peace there will be in serious trouble should Rwanda withdraw its 3560 troops, according to the groups. ...
  • Civil society pleads for Rwandan peacekeepers to stay

    Kigali: Rwanda should ‘carefully review’ the decision to withdraw all its peacekeepers from UN missions if a contested “Genocide” report is released, the platform of civil society organizations said Thursday. ...
  • Kofi Annan responds to Rwanda allegations over “Genocide” report

    Kigali: Under fire from Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo for “funding” the controversial UN “Genocide” report, ex-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan exclusively tells RNA he has nothing to do with the document. ...
  • Un avant-projet pour une meilleure utilisation des terres

    Kigali : Le Rwanda dispose maintenant d’un avant-projet du plan directeur de l’utilisation des terres qui sera soumis aux organes habilités pour adoption, selon un responsable de la Commission nationale des terres, a établi ARI. ...
  • Clarification

    The World Bank will be represented by the Country Manager for the swearing-in of president-elect Paul Kagame on Monday NOT the official reported in the story ‘16 Heads of Governments due for Kagame swearing ’.RNA regrets the errorEditor...
  • Europe now completely bans Rwandan cargo carrier

    Brussels: From just being blacklisted, the European Union on Thursday named more five individual carriers whose operations are fully banned in the European Union airspace - including a Rwandan cargo company. ...
  • Victims of FDLR gang-rape rise to 240

    Kigali: Some 240 women, girls and babies have now been confirmed by the United Nations as having been gang raped last month by the Rwandan FDLR rebels and Congolese militias – with officials saying the victims could be more. ...
  • Kenyan Ambassadors summoned in Europe over Bashir Visit

    Kigali: Several European nations have concurrently summoned Kenyan ambassadors to explain why Kenya, which is a signatory to the International Criminal Court, did not arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he visited Nairobi last week to attend a c...
  • Kaberuka begins five-year tenure as AfDB president

    Kigali: The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Donald Kaberuka, on Wednesday beguns his second five-year mandate at Africa’s foremost development bank. ...

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