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After the Tshisekedi-Kamerhe duo election, Kamerhe traveled to Kigali in March 2019 to prepare for first Kagame-Tshisekedi meeting Rwanda and DR Congo leaders are formulating a regional economic development plan that will eventually pacify the eastern Congo, according to Vital Kamerhe, the all-powerful chief of staff to DRC President Felix…

President Paul Kagame shakes hands with PM Dr Edouard Ngirente at parliamentary buildings alongside Chamber of Deputies Speaker Donatile Mukabalisa, former Chief Justice Prof Sam Rugege (extreme left) By the end of 2024, which is 4years away, same time that President Kagame’s currently 7year term ends, how Rwanda will look…

The 10 suspect during a previous session of court. To the extreme left is the only woman among the suspect. She also among the 4 acquitted The High Court International Crimes Chamber has this Thursday acquitted 4 key suspects in a terrorism case that has been dragging on since 2017.…

Mayor of Bugesera district Richard Mutabazi On Monday and Tuesday, the Mayor of Bugesera district Richard Mutabazi, sent SMS messages to each of 14 Cell executive secretaries. They each had a different time for the meeting. The district has total of 72 cells. On arrival in the meeting room, this…

With the exception of 2 lawmakers who were absent in Parliament, all MPs voted unanimously for the new regime granting special status to Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza will have a special status in society with title of “Guide du Patriotisme” (loosely as Patriotism Guide), along with…

Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana One of the Rwandan students studying in Sudan who disappeared in 2016 is son of former Internal Security Minister Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana, it has emerged. In wide ranging interview with a local publication, Harerimana, currently deputy speaker of Chamber of Deputies in charge of finance…

Gen Kale Kayihura, former Uganda Police chief arrested over alleged kidnap and deportation of Rwandan refugees. A military court in Kampala, Uganda has on Monday surprisingly granted bail to four senior police officers after nearly two year in jail for among other charges, the kidnap and deportation of Rwandan refugees.…

Justice Minister and Attorney General Johnston Busingye (in blue shirt) led delegation to site on Sunday A high-level government delegation has confirmed that the mass grave exhume at airport in Rubavu district contained remains of Tutsis targeted as part of anti-Tutsi massacres before 1994. Justice Minister and Attorney General Johnston…

Beneficiaries get 2 injections, that are spaced 56 days apart In Rubavu district, a region on the frontline of Rwanda’s battle to keep the ebola virus out, 6,000 people have so far received jabs of the vaccine. Across the country, less than 8,000 have showed up. The district has 149,000…

Suspect was not captured last year, but this Saturday his luck ran out At the Remera sector office and other surrounding neighborhoods, there have been several burglaries and no suspects had yet been arrested. Like the saying goes; ‘there are 40 days for a thief’. This Saturday January 18 was…

The day Nsabimana Callixte alias Major Sankara was paraded before the media after he was captured from Comoros and handed to Rwanda On the night of June 19, 2018, armed gang attacked Nyabimata sector in Nyaruguru district. A year later, the government official who was injured and his car torched,…

Iradukunda Jean Claude has been living with another man, but is now saying he had been fooled to believe it was a woman There is shock and disbelief in Nyamirambo, a suburb of Kigali that never sleeps, after local residents watched a person they knew as a woman called “Dada”,…

Ex-President Juvenal Habyarimana with ex-First Lady Agathe Kanziga, who lives in France. July 3 will mean Habyarimana’s ghost continues to haunt Rwanda or goes to sleep, at least for now Liberation Day July 4 is by far the biggest national celebration in Rwanda, but a court decision due on July…

APR FC Jersey will advertise AZAM A few months after Tanzanian digital satellite service provider AZAM TV ended $2.5m sponsorship for Rwanda’s football league, its parent company has signed deal with military side APR FC. This Wednesdsy, Bakhresa Grain Milling Rwanda Ltd, which is part of the Bakhresa Group from…

President Felix Tshisekedi meets Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo in photos released by the DRC Presidency Head of the DR Congo Catholic Church Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo on Monday held talks with President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa – coming on the heals of major fallout. Tshisekedi’s office said in a statement that they…

In January 2008: President Paul Kagame personally ordered and then supervised the redistribution of 54,392 hectares in Eastern Province which was owned by senior military and political officials including Generals and Ministers. Each would remain with only 25 hectares, except for those who could prove they had a long-term redevelopment…

India PM Narendra Modi accompanied by President Kagame were in the village in Bugesera district for symbolic hand over of the promised cows. Between July 23-24, 2018, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Rwanda for first official visit. On the last day of the visit, Modi and host President…

Gen James Kabarebe speaking on Thursday at closing of Itorero for teachers of history from schools countrywide. To his right is Education Minister Dr Eugene Mutimura Ever wondered why ex-Defense Minister Gen James Kabarebe usually just claps when everyone else is singing their hearts out during morale boosting sessions? A…

Lt Col (Rtd) Rose Kabuye (L), who had been arrested in Europe over the Habyarimana case, listens as lawyer Bernard Maingain speaks in 2008. At the time, Kabuye was Chief Government Protocol, and was always travelling with President Paul Kagame Bernard Maingain, the Belgian attorney who has been representing 7…

René Rutagungira (R) in a military court martial in Uganda, alongside another suspect. This photo was shared today by state media group New Vision, unclear if it was taken today during the session in which the charges were withdrawn against Rutagungira and 6 other Rwandans On the night of August…

A cooperative spent over Rwf 9.2m on these rentals, but a court-instructed valuation found the are worth Rwf 500,000. The cooperative was fleeced in broad day light A cooperative in Gicumbi district has lost over Rwf 15m from a failed project courtesy of a man so powerful even the office…

Pope Francis meets Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa at the Vatican during a previous visit The head of the Catholic Church in DR Congo has claimed the conflict and terror being inflicted on people in eastern Congo is aimed to break them so they submit to foreign occupation.…

This was the model class that is supposed to be in each school across the country A multimillion dollar project to have all primary and secondary schools end the use of paper books and chalkboards, is behind schedule but the “journey continues”, the education ministry says. In early 2017, government…

Trainees at IWAWA, most of them former street children and drug addicts. However, in recent years parents are also sending there their indisciplined children At the IWAWA Vocational Training Centre, government is taking tough measures against trainers conniving with trainees to torture others in the name of discipline. The latest…

Monseigneur Celestin Hakizimana admitted the Catholic Church has to do things differently as others like ADEPR do Catholic Church is working on ways to bring back followers who have joined other expanding groups like the Pentecostals (known here as ADEPR), says Monseigneur Hakizimana Celestin, the Bishop of Cyangungu and Gikongoro…

The medical team arrived in Minembwe over the weekend and began work on Monday A medical from Rwanda has arrived in Minembwe, an area in DR Congo’s Uvira territory of south Kivu where bitter ethnic conflict and displacement have been taking place for over a year now. The mission is…

The RDF has maintained it reputation as one of the most admired institutions in the country The Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) has put out a call for cadet training – in which it gives more attractive incentive to scientists. In a statement issued on December 6, but published today, it…

Inside a secondary school class in Rwanda. History teachers are going for Itorero before the school year begins (Photo by Andrea Signori/AVSI) The ministry of education has taken history teachers from secondary schools for Itorero training – amid longstanding concern over genocide ideology in schools. A total of 1,800 teachers…

Col Tom Byabagamba (C) with his co-accused and brother-in-law Brig Gen Frank Rusagara. Their lawyer is planning appeal to the African court in Tanzania Former commander of the Presidential Guard Col Tom Byabagamba and his brother-in-law Brig Gen (Rtd) Frank Rusagara’s legal fortunes are now over. The Court of Appeal…

This photo was shared by blog linked to Twagiramungu and Rusesabagina as showing smoke rising from attacks by FADRC aided by Rwandan troops in camp for “Rwandan Hutu refugees” in Kalehe territory. But as you can see, the people in photo are heavily armed. The photo also raises plenty of…