Rwanda News

A delegation of 31 students and instructors from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the US has been inspired by Rwanda's leadership policies based on empowerment of citizens.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon pledged Thursday that UN troops will be in place within "one or two months" to battle armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, as he toured the flashpoint city of Goma.

Ban Ki- Moon Predecessor Kofi Annan directed UN Peacekeeping Operations when the Rwanda genocide took place in 1994 and it is claimed that he held back UN troops from intervening the genocide In 2003 Canadian ex-General Romeo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda claimed that Annan was overly passive ... (more)

Arriving today in restive eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo , United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all the leaders of Africa's Great Lakes region to throw their support behind a recently-signed peace accord which aims to ensure security, as well as development, for the long-troubled country.

With their refugee status being annulled, Rwandans fear what is in store for them if they go back.

As Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity, the focus of the celebrations is renewing Africa's vision for continental unification as envisaged by its founding fathers such Kwame Nkrumah.

The City of Kigali is challenging architects to design projects that comply with the city master plan.

Technical and Vocational Education and Training will again be allocated a huge chunk of the Ministry of Education budget due to its recognised capacity to promote skills development and bridge the labour market skills gaps, Education minister Vincent Biruta has said.

According to Clarence Fernandes, the representative of Rwanda Development Board in India, the team will be in the country under the platform India - Rwanda Show 2013 and they will tour potential areas where they can invest their money.

The Rwanda Private Sector Federation has launched a project "Linking Farmers to Market" this will help farmers get entrepreneurship skills and appropriate market for their produce in Rwanda and abroad.

M23 rebels fired two rockets into the eastern Congo city of Goma, killing one person and wounding four, officials said, in an apparent spillover from three days of fighting raging north of the city.

African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from colonial masters.

While addressing the Fifth Annual Oxford Africa Business Conference that was recently held in London, the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame praised the African continent saying that it is the new frontier for business, which holds the promise for the global economic turn-around. President Kagame was the inaugural recipient of the Distinction of ... (more)

The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday.

The deployment of a rapid UN intervention force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo should be speeded up in view of this week's fresh unrest, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

Witnessing life in Goma, a city that's been invaded, ransacked, inundated with refugees, and flattened by a volcano -- all in the last 17 years.

M23 rebel recruits attend military lessons in the Rumangabo military camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 16, 2013.

Rwandan women who got financial advice from Fran Pastore at WBDC and opened ice cream shop in Rwanda.

Congo's army used combat helicopters to bombard rebel fighters on Monday near the city of Goma in the first clashes in nearly six months, days before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to visit the troubled eastern borderlands.

A military commander in eastern Congo says rebels attacked an army position north of Goma, a major provincial capital in the country's troubled east.