20101208
New Times

Kigali — A census that was conducted in the Virunga Massif between March and April, this year has shown a 26.3 percent increase of the mountain gorillas over the last seven years, with a 3.7 percent annual growth rate.

20101113
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - An opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame will go on trial in 30 days, an official said on Friday, and authorities are seeking Western help in investigating another critic who was portrayed in the movie "Hotel Rwanda".

20101026
africanews

Rwanda's female opposition leader Victoire Ingabire is facing a bail hearing after pleading not guilty to terrorism charges in a court in the capital Kigali. The leader of the unregistered United Democratic Forces (UDF) party, told an earlier hearing Monday that the case against her was politically motivated.

20101011
reuters

A Rwandan rebel leader was arrested in France today on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last year.

20100927
africanews

The UN chief Ban Ki-moon has thanked Rwanda's President Paul Kagame for keeping peacekeeping troops in Sudan, despite anger over looming genocide accusations against the Rwandan army, according to an AFP report.

20100927
New Times

The United States is strengthening its relations with two breakaway regions in Somalia while also urging Japan to help Kenya meet the costs of prosecuting Somali pirates.

20100925
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda, which had threatened to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan's western Darfur region, has decided to leave its troops in the conflict-torn territory, a top U.N. official said on Friday.

20100925
africanews

Rwanda, which had threatened to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan's western Darfur region, has decided to leave its troops in the conflict-torn territory, a top U.N. official said. U.N. Secretary-General went to Rwanda earlier this month after President Paul Kagame threatened to end participation in a joint U.N./AU peacekeeping force in Darfur.

20100913
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rwanda plans to introduce a scheme to help buyers certify the origin and supply chain of tin and other ores to ensure they were not from conflict zones, a mining official said on Monday.

20100911
RFI

Two French judges were due in Kigali Saturday with a team to investigate the assassination of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994. Rwanda cut off diplomatic ties with France in November 2006 over the investigation, after arrest warrants were issued against nine people close to President Paul Kagame. They have since been restored.

20100907
africanews

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has hit back at his international critics saying Africa needed no lessons from the wider world.

20100906
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejected on Monday accusations he has failed to safeguard human rights and vowed not to let Western critics of his rule influence the path of the central African country.

20100830
africanews

The Rwandan government is threatening to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the 1990s, Rwanda's foreign minister said in a letter sent to the UN.

20100828
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda rejected as malicious and ridiculous on Friday a leaked draft United Nations report that said its troops may have committed genocide in Congo in the 1990s.

20100823
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - Investment in Rwanda doubled to $1.6 billion in 2009, a year after the tiny central African country was named top global business reformer by the World Bank, a government official said on Monday.

20100814
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expressed concern on Friday about "disturbing events" surrounding this week's presidential election in Rwanda in which incumbent Paul Kagame drew 93 percent of the votes.

20100814
africanews

A Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has called on the international community, which provides half of the country's budget, to reject President Paul Kagame's re-election.

20100813
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - A Rwandan confessed to throwing a grenade in the capital Kigali which killed two people on Wednesday when results showed that President Paul Kagame won re-election by a landslide, police said.

20100810
reuters

By Themistocle Hakizimana and Hereward Holland

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame danced his way towards a second seven-year term on Tuesday after preliminary results gave the bush war veteran 93 percent of the vote in more than a third of country's districts.

20100810
africanews

The results coming from different parts of Rwanda shows the country's President Paul Kagame led on Tuesday in early results after a poll expected to return the post-genocide leader for a second term with a landslide, sparking giant celebrations in the capital.