Contributor ReportsRwanda accepted into Commonwealth only 15 years after genocide
Source: The Scotsman
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Sun Nov 29 16:12:52 -0800 2009 | political-news
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...
'Genocide banker' jailed for 30 years
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Tue Dec 01 12:16:05 -0800 2009 | travel-news
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...
Rwanda names new finance minister in reshuffle
Source: Daily Nation
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Thu Dec 03 02:34:11 -0800 2009 | political-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...
Holiday gift guide: books
Source: Leader Post Online
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Tue Dec 01 08:25:19 -0800 2009 | entertainment-news
Bruce's entertaining answer to that perennial question of readers. Monty Python Live! Hyperion, $32.99 Python fans rejoice! A collection of famous routines, oral histories and memorabilia marks the 40th anniversary of Monty Python. The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of Proper...
Joining the club
Source: BBC
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Fri Nov 27 12:35:59 -0800 2009 | political-news
Rwandans who were forced to flee to English-speaking Uganda brought back a passion for cricket when they returned The head of Kigali Independent University has a problem. Professor Alphonse Ngagi has just overseen the switch from using French to English...
Nicolas Sarkozy to attend Commonwealth meeting | Nicholas Watt
Source: The Guardian
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Fri Nov 27 00:57:33 -0800 2009 | political-news
Nicolas Sarkozy to attend Commonwealth meeting Maybe France should join the group; only a few short centuries ago Calais was ruled from London It has all the makings of a love-in. Nicolas Sarkozy will today make a small piece of...
Analysis: Rwanda could put Commonwealth on a sticky wicket
Source: The Scotsman
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Mon Nov 30 16:38:18 -0800 2009 | political-news
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...
Nkunda's lawyers protest his 'illegal' detention in Rwanda
Source: News 24
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Tue Dec 01 23:53:23 -0800 2009 | travel-news
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...
Rwanda to become 'landmine free'
Source: BBC
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Tue Dec 01 10:23:10 -0800 2009 | political-news
The announcement is to be made at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World in Columbia. Hundreds of people have been killed and horrifically injured by landmines in Rwanda. Landmines were laid between 1990 and 1994 in Rwanda and over...
Ottawa to debate bill that would open access to generic drugs
Source: The Globe and Mail
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated Thu Dec 03 02:20:50 -0800 2009 | health-news
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...
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