Paul Kagame News Archives

Rwanda's Irene Niyombaza, an Information Communication and Technology expert was yesterday honoured by the United States Telecommunications Training Institute as Graduate number 8.000. According to the Chairman of USTTI, Ambassador Michael R. Gardner, the 27-year old Infrastructure Officer at the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency , was praised for ...

The United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the problem of FDLR is being resolved by the European Union.

Rwanda's progress and rebuilding after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, is an outstanding example to show other conflict ravaged countries worldwide that it is possible to re-establish a stable, secure and growing economy after years of devastating civil strife, a senior UK government official said yesterday.

It's a long way from selling B.C. real estate to healing Rwanda. But 56-year-old Maple Ridge-native Cathy Emmerson made the move - the biggest of her life - six years ago and never looked back.

A political manifesto allegedly written by former Congolese warlord Laurent Nkunda just days before he was arrested by the Rwandan Government surfaced for the first time last week.

Tanzania's President called for global assistance in the 'gigantic task' of generating employment for African youth at the General Assembly today, warning that the problem can serve to perpetuate conflict on the conflict.

What we are doing to our planet, to our children and grandchildren, and to the poor, by our heedless production of greenhouse gases, is one of the great moral wrongs of our age.

For Africa to attract more business and move forward in its on-going transformation, the continent must embrace good governance that promotes accountability, President Paul Kagame told a conference of Ombudsmen and anti-corruption officials yesterday.

By giving democratic forces in Rwandan an internationally recognizable banner to rally round, the international Greens have helped Rwandan Greens kick a hole in the huge and hugely evil IMF/World Bank/U.S.-U.K. State Department/Rev. Rick Warren lie about Paul Kagame's Rwanda, and, about the covert U.S. War in Central Africa---the most lethal, but ...

MANILA: US troops are helping rescuers get food aid to the northern Philippine region cut off by recent floods and landslides that have killed about 600 people.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has praised the way China does business in Africa, criticising the West for basing relations with the continent on aid.

President Yoweri Museveni on Monday torched a huge pyre of 3,500 illegal guns at the opening of the East African Peace and Security conference at Speke Resort Munyonyo.

Why are we asking this now? One of the eight fugitives named as ringleaders of the genocide in which around 800,000 people are thought to have died in Rwanda in 1994 has been arrested this week in Uganda.

Idelphonse Nizeyimana in this undated photo, was arrested by Interpol agents as one of the suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

Rwanda experienced Africa's worst genocide in modern times, and the country's recovery was marred by its intervention in the conflict in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Former Czech president Vaclav Havel received the Quadriga prestigious German award for civic courage in Berlin today, on the 19th anniversary of the unification of Germany.

Rwanda enjoys a positive reputation internationally and its President Paul Kagame is regularly praised by the World Bank, the US, and UK administrations for his integrity, efforts at reconciliation, and economic policies.

OKLAHOMA CITY After surviving the horrors of genocide, the people of Rwanda have learned how to rebuild their country, Rwanda's ambassador to the United States said Thursday evening.

Rwanda is hoping to build a future as a hi-tech economy. But it faces another struggle - to move on from the ethnic divisions which led to civil war and genocide in the 1990s - as Madeleine Morris found on a recent trip to the country to make a programme for the BBC's World Service.