The United Kingdom has asked Zimbabwe and other countries accused of harbouring fugitives of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to ensure the suspects are arrested and brought to justice. British Foreign Office Undersecretary, Henry Bellingham, said he expected all cou

(L-R) Minister Gatsinzi, Rose Makena Muchiri, Kenyan High Commissioner to Rwanda and Neimah Warsame, UNHCR country representative listen to one of the returnees, yesterday. KARONGI- UNHCR Country Representative, Neimah Warsame, has commended Rwanda for her impressive achievements and tremendous effort to reintegrate those who fled but returned afte

A Court in Norway yesterday remanded, Sadi Bugingo, a Genocide suspect who was arrested last month, for another two months. Bugingo, 45, is accused of killing Tutsis in the former Kibungo Prefecture, now in the Eastern Province, during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. His arrest followed a two-year investigation by Norwegians investigators who

RDF Spokesperson, Lt Col Jill Rutaremara The Rwanda Peace Academy in conjunction with the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) will, today, start a three-day workshop on Environmental Security. According to the Defence and Military Spokesperson, Lt. Col. Jill Rutaremara, the workshop will look into various environment related elements. “The wor

A Court in Norway yesterday remanded, Sadi Bugingo, a Genocide suspect who was arrested last month, for another two months. Bugingo, 45, is accused of killing Tutsis in the former Kibungo Prefecture, now in the Eastern Province, during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. His arrest followed a two-year investigation by Norwegians investigators who

Victoire Ingabire chats with her Lawyer, Gatera Gashabana, in court yesterday. KIGALI - The High Court yesterday, for the second time, adjourned the trial involving Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire to September, leader of the yet-to-be registered political party FDU-Inkingi, and four others, after the defendant requested for more time to prepare her defen

A relative of one of the Tanzanian road accident victim watches as the RDF air rescue team transfer patients to King Faisal Hospital, yesterday. The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) yesterday dispatched a helicopter with doctors on board to airlift severely injured Rwandans involved in a fatal accident in Tanzania. Two ambulances were also dispatched by

Nadine Laporte from Woods Hole Research Centre that will train environmentalists Rwandan forest monitoring specialists are set to undergo training in modern techniques to help them implement and improve national forest monitoring programs. The training will among other things,, equip the trainees with necessary skills to conduct field surveys, lead

President Kagame with the new ministers after the swearing-in ceremony, yesterday. (Photo Village Urugwiro) KIGALI - The newly appointed Ministers yesterday took oath at the Parliamentary buildings in a ceremony officiated by President Paul Kagame. In his address, President Kagame congratulated the newly appointed Ministers and reminded them that t

ARUSHA - The East African Community (EAC) is set to conduct a feasibility study for the extension of a oil pipeline from Kigali to Bujumbura, a senior EAC official has said. The EAC Deputy Secretary General (Productive and Social Sectors), Jean Claude Nsengiyumva said recently that the study would start after the EAC secures funding from the Africa