Politics

The long-awaited trial of Félicien Kabuga, alleged mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is due to start on September 29 in The Hague. However, the accused is appearing with a lawyer he has been rejecting for almost two years. The trial is threatened by the 89-year-old’s frail health and the…

South Sudan President Salva Kiir A long-running state of insecurity has recently intensified in Unity State – one of South Sudan’s 10 states – resulting in many innocent lives being lost. The security crisis is being stoked by many factors. One is fighting between sections of the civilian population, caused by cattle raiding, among…

Anti Xenophobia demo Cape Town, South Africa May 2008 (Photo by Mikko Kapanen) In South Africa, immigrants are often scapegoated as the root of socio-economic problems. In the post-apartheid landscape, Black African immigrants, mainly, from other African countries have been negatively stereotyped as “illegal” and “job stealers” who are “criminal”…

Faustin Archange Touadera BANGUI – The Central African Republic’s top court on Friday annulled presidential decrees setting up a committee to rewrite the constitution, which had sparked fears Faustin Archange Touadera was seeking a third term in office. In a legal setback for the president, the Constitutional Court declared that…

Hotel Rwanda movie personality Paul Rusesabagina Jonathan Scott, a cyber security researcher is no stranger to controversy. In January, the American phone tech expert went public with details that China was using an App developed for the Olympics, to spy on the athletes instead. In a new shocker, Scott has…

Born in Uasin Gishu County in 1966, Dr Ruto has risen from humble beginnings in Sugoi to become one of the richest and most powerful men in Kenya. And now, he has risen even higher after being named Kenya’s president elect. Kenya Kwanza coalition leader William Ruto. AFP With almost an…

About 5km upstream from Nyabarongo I hydropower dam, the soil brought in from different regions is is visible because the dam reservoir had reduced significantly when we visited in November 2021. Such scenes also appear in other spots upstream A mapping of the impact of soil erosion on the country…

President Alassane Ouattara (left) during meeting with predecessor Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced Saturday that he had pardoned his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, who faced a 20-year jail term for a 2018 conviction over political unrest. “In the interests of strengthening social cohesion, I have signed a decree…

Rwandan troops invited to the region by the Mozambique government have pacified most of the areas they operate Mozambique’s restive northeastern province is abuzz with action. Despite recent losses, violent insurgents continue to attack villages and residents, while thousands of security forces fight to secure towns in order to welcome…

Members of the Historically marginalised community still engage in pottery but no longer allowed to roam freely in forests Community in Rwanda identified as “historically marginalised”, but previously called “Batwa” want to go back to the life they live for centuries; the forest. At a gathering in Kigali, their representatives…

Jean Twagiramungu is escorted by Police Officers as he arrived at Kigali International Airport from Germany on August 18, 2017 Prosecution witness in the genocide trial of Jean Twagiramungu who was extradited by Germany in 2017, has changed his testimony the moment he appeared before the court. Twagiramungu was sent…

Finance Minister Dr Uzziel Ndagijimana prepares to deliver budget statement to Parliament Rwanda and other African countries owe three times more debt to Western banks, asset managers and oil traders than to China, and are charged double the interest, according to new research. The study by UK-based Debt Justice shows…

Election rally of Tanzania’s dominant ruling party CCM during previous election Tanzania’s dominant ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party has opened direct talks with main opposition CHADEMA party in effort to ease tensions that have threatened to tire down the country. The two sides have been at war every election cycle.…

Six months have passed since eight people acquitted or released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were transferred by the UN to Niger, supposedly to live freely and permanently. But they are still without papers and without freedom, confined to a house in Niamey guarded by police and…

Irrigation process going on at Ndego Soya farm. L. Nasho can be seen in the background (Photo: Nkurunziza Faustina) The Eastern part of Rwanda had been a vacant land for decades before the government found a use, turning it into the country’s breadbasket through irrigation. Farmers have traditionally irrigated rice…

Woman fetches water from a well in eastern Rwanda In eastern Rwanda, where temperatures have been in the upper highs for many decades, there is very little water on the surface in the form of natural wells, streams, rivers, and lakes. While government-led interventions such as massive afforestation have improved…

A Chinese volunteer teaches Chinese to students from the Confucius Institute of the University of Rwanda. [Photo: China Plus] China has overtaken the US as the foreign power seen as having the biggest positive influence in Africa by young people, according to a survey released on Monday. A survey conducted…

The trial of Félicien Kabuga, octogenarian alleged mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was initially announced for the end of 2021, but it has not begun and no one can say when it might start. The health of the former businessman, who has been at odds with his lawyer for…

Suspects arrive for a case hearing. Usually, they will have all details about their case in IECMS platform before their hearings are scheduled. As small error or lapse automatically leads to postponement, which frustrates those involved An American developer completed the setup of online system that manages court cases in…

Yes “Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership” Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame chairs the 10th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union, Kigali, 21 March 2018 John Maxwell was right; “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” And at the peak of Africa’s mountainous range of predicaments, is the almost numbing reality of…

Mironko François Xavier A court action in which industrialist Mironko François Xavier has been seeking back payment owed to him by the government of Rwanda, may have finally come to an end. Mironko is a known brand name in Rwanda, owing to his plastics factory. He is the first Rwandan…

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame reacts as Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba cuts the birthday cake with his parents, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni at State House, Entebbe, Uganda, Sunday April 24, 2022 Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is safely back home from a two-day private visit in Uganda. The…

Jean Bosco Nkusi Jean Bosco Nkusi, in charge of Recritement and Mobilisation in a political organisation founded by Dr Kayumba Christopher, has been handed a lengthy jail term. The Gasabo Intermediate Court in Kigali ruled in a verdict put in the court filing system that Nkusi and four co-accused are…

FDLR top commander confiscated Eugene Nkusi’s phone for two weeks on suspicion he could be a double agent of the Rwandan government. It was hoped “someone” would call, which would have resulted into automatic death for Nkusi. The Chronicles traces the life of a man who spent over two decades…

In January 2009, a major joint Rwanda-DRC military offensive codenamed Umoja Wetu (Our unity), was launched against negative forces in DRC’s vast eastern region. The militia landscape changed completely, as they were no longer able to cause havoc in Congolese villages with impunity. For Hakizimana Uzziel alias Lt Col Uzziel…

Following one of the numerous deadly attacks by Rwandan rebels, ‘Abacengezi’, in northwestern Rwanda in 1997, 18-year-old Barakamfitiye Providence went with them as they retreated back to their jungle hideouts in eastern Congo. Since giving birth to first child in 2005, Premier sergeant-major Barakamfitiye has spent all years looking after…

In the different neighborhoods where she lived in east DR Congo city of Goma, Premier sergeant-major Kanyere Rosette blended in as a student, a desperately poor mother selling charcoal and above all; a Congolese. What her classmates and neighbours had no idea about, is that they were living with a…

Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Keinerugaba on his visit to Rwanda Since January 16, Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Keinerugaba, 47, the son of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has been shaping perception of relations between Rwanda and Uganda. Kigali and Kampala have been at near-war since around 2017. The mariage broke down complete in…

President Paul Kagame (R) holds impromptu bilateral meet with deceased former Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza in Huye district back in 2015. It the last meeting between Rwanda-Burundi leaders. Under new President Evariste Ndayishimiye, relations are reemerging Arusha – With the East African Community (EAC) bloc aiming to become self- sufficient in…

Innocent Bahati Police said Tuesday that it had “taken interest” into Rwandan Poet whose case has come to prominence with letter to President Paul Kagame by international authors. In letter published Tuesday by the Guardian, over 100 authors led by PEN International president Burhan Sönmez asked President Kagame to help…