20120629 AFP A Rwandan court Friday postponed the verdict for opposition figure Victoire Ingabire, accused of bankrolling terrorism and denial of the 1994 genocide, until September, the prosecutor's office said.
20120620 AFP The UN tribunal for Rwanda Tuesday handed a life sentence to a former army captain nicknamed the "Butcher of Butare" for his role in the 1994 genocide.
20120418 AFP The lawyer for a detainee at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has filed an motion to block his client's transfer to Rwanda, a court official said Tuesday.
20120324 AFP An explosion killed one person and wounded five others Friday in northern Rwanda, a police spokesman said, adding that a probe had been launched to determine the nature of the explosive device.
20120319 AFP The lights Daniel Ntibaziyandemye uses for his nocturnal fishing trips are charged by pedal-powered generators that offer an affordable means of creating energy, even for the poor.
20120303 AFP Rwandan opposition leader Charles Ntakirutinka vowed to remain critical President Paul Kagame's government as he walked free Thursday at the end of a 10-year prison sentence for incitement.
20120225 AFP The UN-backed tribunal for Rwanda has tranferred a second genocide case to the central African country's national courts, an official said Friday.
20120218 AFP An exiled Rwandan journalist in Sweden critical of the regime of Rwandan President Paul Kagame has emerged after a month in hiding after fearing attack, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday.
20120208 AFP The proportion of Rwanda's population living in poverty dropped from 57 percent in 2006 to 45 percent in 2011, according to data released Tuesday.
20120125 AFP Ten people were injured Tuesday evening in a grenade blast in central Rwanda, a police spokesman said, adding that it was not yet clear whether the blast was an attack.
20120116 AP KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Sunday he's "not very excited" by a report released by a French commission that found that the missile fire that brought down the Rwandan president's plane in 1994 and sparked the country's genocide came from a military camp and not Tutsi rebels.
20120112 Reuters PARIS (Reuters) - A French probe into what sparked the 1994 Rwandan genocide appears to exonerate current President Paul Kagame and his Tutsi allies after Paris had previously accused him of triggering the killing of 800,000 people in 100 days.
20120111 AFP Experts mandated by a French inquiry to probe the 1994 downing of Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana's jet have cleared now-President Paul Kagame's aides of involvement, their lawyer said Tuesday.
20120110 AFP A group of experts mandated by a French inquiry to probe the 1994 downing of Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana's jet is due to say Tuesday where the fatal ground-to-air missile was fired from.
20120110 AFP Renewed tribal clashes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state have killed at least 24 people, days after a cattle vendetta rattled the stability of the world's newest state, officials said Monday.
2012017 AFP Rwanda's exports of goods and services increased by 31.7 percent in 2011, driven mainly by mining, tea and coffee, the Trade and Industry Ministry said Friday.
20120105 Reuters KIGALI (Reuters) - Two people have died after a grenade attack near an open-air fruit and vegetable market in Rwanda's capital Kigali on Tuesday evening, police said on Wednesday.
20111222 Reuters DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda on Wednesday found two bosses of the former ruling Hutu-led party guilty of genocide for their leading roles in the 1994 massacre of Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and sentenced them to life in prison.
