Rwanda News

Rwanda's government named a top treasury official, John Rwangombwa, as the east African nation's new finance minister on Thursday as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Rwangombwa, who was the ministry's permanent secretary, replaces James Musoni as finance and economic planning...

A proposal to make it easier for generic drug companies to copy brand-name medicines for sale to impoverished countries will be debated by a House of Commons committee. A private member's bill to reform Canada's Access to Medicines Regime was...

Dubai World Rwanda Tourism Projects Still on Berna Namata 3 December 2009 Kigali — Istithmar World's current tourism investment projects in the country are likely not to be affected by the financial woes of the parent company, Dubai World. The...

Rwandan Ephrem Nkezabera, dubbed the 'genocide banker', to 30 years in prison for war crimes including murders and rapes during his country's 1994 bloodbath. Nkezabera, 57, who is being treated for liver cancer, was not present in court for the...

Lawyers for Laurent Nkunda, a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have filed a complaint about his "illegal detention" in Rwanda, his family announced on Tuesday. The lawyers have taken the case to Rwanda's Supreme Court...

The 37-year-old entertainer, who wore Dolce & Gabbana to the event, supported the children of Rwanda at the dinner hosted by Babeth Djian and Pierre Pelegry. Also at the soiree were fashion mavens Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Paul Gaultier ....

The cricket revolution, inspired by the country's near-dictatorial president, Paul Kagame, was a clear and deliberate kick in the teeth to France, the backer and mentor of Rwanda's pre-1994 Hutu-dominated government which planned and implemented the 100-day genocide of 800,000...

The African nation, scarred by the genocide of 1994, has become the 54th member of the association after a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Trinidad and Tobago. Commonwealth. "Rwanda has made progress towards meeting the Commonwealth's core values in areas...

RWANDA - Nature's Best Photography, the Windland Smith Rice International Awards competition, celebrates natures most incredible sights and creatures every year. The winning image is chosen out of hundreds of thousands of photos submitted by photographers from all around the...

Officials said no one died when when a Rwandair Express airplane crashed into the Kigali Airport after returning to the airport when the throttle jammed. The Jetlink Air Canadair CRJ-100 aircraft was flying from Kigali to Entebbe, Uganda, with 10...