20100809
Nation

Nairobi — To a crescendo of "We will vote for you!" and "No one but you!", Rwandan President Paul Kagame made his final campaign appearance before Monday's poll like a long-awaited rock star.

20100809
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandans turned out in large numbers on Monday to vote in the country's second presidential election since the 1994 genocide, with incumbent Paul Kagame expected to win by a landslide.

20100808
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame is expected to win a resounding victory in Monday's election, partly due to the growth and stability he has delivered since the 1994 genocide and partly because of a crackdown on rivals.

20100808
CISA

Amnesty International has condemned attacks on politicians and journalists in the run up to the presidential election on August 9.

20100806
africanews

South Africa has recalled its ambassador to Rwanda following a diplomatic row over the shooting of an exiled Rwandan general in Johannesburg. Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was shot and wounded in June. SA said it had not broken diplomatic ties and no connection was being made between the ambassador's withdrawal and the shooting.

20100803
africanews

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has lashed out at the Western media for criticizing his style of government. He defended the country's political system despite growing concern over the rule of law and human rights.

20100724
africanews

Washington, DC — Rwandan officials have defended the government of President Paul Kagame against recent criticism that it was cracking down on its opponents and the press ahead of upcoming presidential elections.

20100723
africanews

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Lawyer Patrick Lumumba was named Kenya's new anti-corruption chief on Friday, taking the helm of an organisation criticised for failing to bring high-profile offenders to book.

20100720
africanews

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has launched his campaign for the August 9 polls and promised free elections despite attacks, assassinations and arrests on the opposition. Human rights groups have also berated him for not protecting lives of innocent ones ahead of the tensed voting.

20100719
africanews

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rwanda, racked by genocide over a decade ago, is investing in innovative agriculture, methane gas, fiber optics and ice tea in a bid to become a middle-income economy by 2020, its foreign minister told Reuters on Monday.

20100719
africanews

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rwanda needs to tightly control journalists and politicians to prevent the ethnically divisive rhetoric that sparked a 1994 genocide, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said on Monday.

20100717
allafrica

Rubavu — The Minister of Agriculture, Dr Agnes Kalibata, Thursday, urged the residents of Rubavu and Nyabihu districts to own a re-forestation project of Gishwati forest.

20100717
allafrica

Kigali — The Nyarugenge Intermediate Court, on Thursday, denied bail to the two suspects in the murder of local journalist, Jean Leonard Rugambage, citing the gravity of the charges the two are facing.

20100716
reuters

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled out of a meeting with President Paul Kagame on Friday after receiving a petition alleging the Rwandan leader has violated human rights, an ally of Zapatero said.

20100716
africanews

The political tension in Rwanda is heightening as a leading opponent of Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Friday called for a boycott of next month's presidential elections because she and a number of would-be candidates have been barred from standing.

20100704
africanews

The Ugandan police have arrested a pastor accused of organizing mass killings in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Officials say Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, who is on a UN wanted list, was detained on Wednesday 30 June 2010 after entering Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

20100628
allafrica

Johannesburg — AN INDICTMENT issued against a former Rwandan general who was shot in Johannesburg earlier this month, holding him accountable for murders that were part of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, puts his refugee status under question, a human rights lawyer said yesterday.

20100628
africanews

Rwanda police have arrested two people over the shooting of a reporter last week and stated that it was a revenge attack.

20100625
africanews

A Rwandan journalist working for a private newspaper has been shot dead in front of his house in the capital. Witnesses say Jean Leonard Rugambage, the acting editor of Umuvugizi newspaper, was fired on by two men who then fled in a car.The authorities had recently suspended the paper, prompting it to start publishing online instead.

20100620
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An exiled Rwandan general was shot and wounded in South Africa on Saturday in what his wife called a Rwandan-backed assassination attempt, a charge the Kigali government dismissed as "preposterous".