Kagame denounces UN force in Congo
Source: BBC
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-20 10:17:15 -0700 | travel-news
Rwandan President Paul Kagame says the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has "in some cases" made the situation worse. In an interview with the BBC, he said any military effort to bring peace to DR Congo...
East Africa: Eastern Africa Standby Force to Have Operational Capacity By 2015
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-19 00:42:18 -0700 | travel-news
African Standby Force consisting of the military, police and civilian elements...The military forces will be held on standby in the various member states," he said. FTX 'Mashariki Salam 2013' translated as 'Peaceful Eastern Africa'. The troops will undergo a simulation...
Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Extradited From Norway to Stay in Custody
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-18 07:30:24 -0700 | travel-news
Arusha A Rwandan court on Wednesday granted a prosecutor's request to keep in custody a genocide suspect extradited from Norway. Charles Bandora, the first genocide suspect extradited to Rwanda by a European country, was handed over to the Rwandan authorities...
Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children: Romeo Dallaire and his fight to end the use of child ...
Source: The Globe & Mail
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-16 21:13:23 -0700 | travel-news
The subject is the deployment of child soldiers and the speaker, his voice as urgent as his face is weathered, has witnessed the sin far too often and much too close. Of course, Romeo Dallaire, the now-retired Canadian general who...
6 reported dead in Rwanda building collapse
Source: Wyckoff Suburban News
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-15 15:39:53 -0700 | travel-news
Rwanda Police said Wednesday that the death toll in a building collapse in northeastern Rwanda has risen to six, as rescue operations came to an end. "Rescue operations are completed. Six are confirmed dead, 18 remain in hospital," Theos Badege,...
Six dead in Rwanda building collapse as rescue ends
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-15 00:56:27 -0700 | travel-news
Six people died and more than 30 others were injured after a building collapsed in northeastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as they called off rescue efforts a day after the accident. "Six people working on the site died as...
'People trapped' in Rwanda collapse
Source: BBC
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-14 16:11:27 -0700 | travel-news
Dozens feared trapped in Rwanda building collapse About 100 people are feared trapped in a collapsed four-storey building in north-eastern Rwanda, the government says. "The tentative information we have indicates that debris fell on about 100 people," Rwandan minister Seraphine...
Gatsibo: More 350 refugees join Nyabiheke camp
Source: News of Rwanda
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-10 01:23:58 -0700 | travel-news
Nyabiheke camp is the newest camp located in Gatsibo sector and occupied with over 8000 Congolese refugees plus others who come for shelter. Congolese refugees will be brought into Nyabiheke camp and the first group of 350 refugees including children,...
Rwanda: Kigali-Musanze Road Blocked After Rain Causes Deep Cracks
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-05 23:34:15 -0700 | travel-news
The Kigali-Musanze road remains blocked following extreme damage caused by rain. Part of the road at Taba cell, Gashenyi sector in Gakenke district, developed huge cracks on Saturday as the soils were weakened, officials said. Seraphine Mukantabana, the Minister of...
Rwanda: Regional Police Officers in Joint Training
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-05 23:34:14 -0700 | travel-news
Great lakes region at the weekend began conducting a four-day joint field exercise aimed at fighting terrorism in the region...Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. "The exercise will test the police officers...
Floods crisis may delay opening of new school term
Source: Daily Nation
Nyanza :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-05 12:38:37 -0700 | travel-news
Uncertainty looms over the opening of schools that have been used as evacuation camps for flood victims in Nyanza as the second term begins on Tuesday. According to the Kenya Red Cross, 20 primary schools in Siaya, Gucha, Nyatike, Nyando...
M23 ex-leader renounces rebel activity
Source: News of Rwanda
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-02 04:10:19 -0700 | travel-news
I Jean Maria Rugerero Runiga, hereby willingly and permanently renounce all political activities that can be associated to armed groups Jean Maria Runiga Rugerero and thousands of other rebel members had fled to Rwanda in thousands as an M23 breakaway...
Congo-Kinshasa: Former M23 Fighters and Politicians Support Peaceful DRC Solution
Source: Africa Headlines
Gisenyi :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-01 07:00:57 -0700 | travel-news
Former M23 fighters and politicians who arrived in Rwanda on March 15 and were transported to Eastern province (Ngoma district), have started to sign oaths of renouncement of combatant status to refugee status, and to support peaceful (political) ways to...
South Sudan: President Kiir Salutes Rwanda, South Sudan Police Forces Ties
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-04-28 23:01:40 -0700 | travel-news
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has commended the support rendered by Rwanda National Police (RNP) in building the capacity of the South Sudan National Police Services. President Kiir said this last week at the State House in Juba, where he...
White woman's burden: Angelina Jolie, the G8 and rape in the DRC
Source: San Francisco Bay View
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-04-25 15:08:26 -0700 | travel-news
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