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Gen Gatsinzi to testify at ICTR
Gen Marcel Gatsinzi The Minister for Disaster preparedness and Refugee Affairs, Gen.Marcel Gatsinzi, yesterday travelled to Arusha Tanzania to testify in cases related to genocide suspects and convicts, including Theoneste Bagosora. Robert Bimenyimana,...
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FDLR subject to Security Council resolutions – Ngoga
Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga. KIGALI - The Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga, yesterday said that it would be naïve for Rwandans to think the legitimacy to pursue FDLR and their supporters is based on foreign lists, even if foreign cooperation is needed....
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Media should provide forum for debate - C’wealth
(L-R) Ministers Protais Musoni and Louise Mushikiwabo with Commonwealth’s Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba, and Charles C.Okigbo, a Communications expert KIGALI - The Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba, has said that the media...
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President Kagame urges EAC to remove obstacles to integration
President Kagame with EAC legislators after the opening ceremony of the EALA session at the Parliamentary buildings, yesterday. (Photo Village Urugwiro) KIGALI - President Paul Kagame has urged Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) to make...
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Over Rwf25bn needed to upgrade health facilities
4-2 Government is keen to upgrade health centres (File Photo) KIGALI - The Minister of Health, Dr Richard Sezibera, yesterday, said that an estimated Rwf 26 Billion is required to rehabilitate various hospitals and health centres in the country. The minister...
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Regional forum on sanitation opens in Kigali
Participants of the Workshop on sanitation and Hygiene. KIGALI - A three-day regional workshop on pro-poor urban sanitation and hygiene kicked off yesterday in Kigali. The workshop will provide a platform for sharing best practices on sanitation and hygiene...
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Media have right to information--Ombudsman
Ombdsman Tito Rutaremara adderessing the press yesterday KIGALI - The Ombudsman, Tito Rutaremara, yesterday said that with or without the access to information law, media practitioners should be given necessary information to ease their duties.Rutaremara...
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African media urged to focus on dev’t issues
Nation Media Group's Charles Onyango Obo is one of the participants of the Commonwealth Forum (Photo T Kisambira) KIGALI - Media experts attending the first session of the Commonwealth Media Forum have resolved that the only way Africa can prosper is...
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Survivors speak out on Gatete sentence
Kiziguro genocide memorial site where thousands of Tutsi were killed under the command of Jean Baptiste Gatete.(Photo D Ngabonziza) GATSIBO-Survivors from the former Murambi Commune, currently Gatsibo District, in Eastern Province, have welcomed the life...
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Genocide suspect faces deportation from Canada
Martin Ngoga Reports from Canada indicate that following a ruling this month, a court found that Jean Leonard Teganya, a Genocide suspect, could be deported to Rwanda. Teganya was an intern at Butare University Hospital in April, 1994, where militia killed...
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EAC ministers question EALA budget increase
L-R; Minister Monique Mukaruliza, EAC Secretary General Juma Mwapachu and Hafsa Mossi from Burundi at the EAC Meeting. KIGALI - Ministers of the East African Community, yesterday, asked the East African Legislative Assembly, to justify the request for...
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EALA hails Mwapachu
COMMENDED; Outgoing EAC boss Juma Mwapachu KIGALI - The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), yesterday, paid tribute to the outgoing EAC Secretary General, Ambassador Juma Mwapachu of Tanzania, for his exemplary work in the advancement of the community....
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Imbuto Foundation rewards 130 more girls
(L-R) The Best performers in a group photo with (L-R -seated) MP Thiery Karemera, Mayor of Kicukiro -Paul Jules Ndamage, Minister Solina Nyirahabimana, Mayor of Kigali - Fidele Ndayisaba, and Nina Shalita, the Deputy DG of Imbuto KIGALI - Imbuto Foundation,...
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Economy growing steadily -Kagame
Front President Kagame speaks to journalists at the news conference at Village Urugwiro, yesterday. (Photo/ Village Urugwiro) KIGALI - President Paul Kagame, yesterday said that Rwanda’s economy has continued to grow steadily for the last 10 years. The...
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L. Kivu boat victims to be honoured
Some of the bodies of victims of the deadly boat accident on Lake Kivu last year KARONGI- Mourners who perished in a boat accident exactly one year ago at start of the 16th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi, will be honoured this month....
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Transparency Rwanda to expand countrywide
Transparency Rwanda's Marie Immaculee Ingabire (File photo). Transparency Rwanda will this month open branches in Kayonza, Huye, Musanze and Rubavu Districts in its countrywide expansion drive by 2015, the NGOs Chairperson, Marie Immaculee Ingabire, announced...
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Dutch youth impressed by Iwawa Rehab Centre
Youth Minister Protais Mitali with Iwawa trainees. (File photo). Members of the Netherlands-based youth group, ‘Unity is Strength Foundation’, were impressed by the way youth are getting vocational skills at Iwawa Rehabilitation and Vocational Training...
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Governor meets Rukara students over bursaries
Damian Ntaganzwa (L), Vice Principle, talking to the delegation. Looking on is Governor Aisa Kirabo Kayonza- The Governor of Eastern Province, Dr.Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, has urged students of Rukara College in Kayonza District, to try and fend for themselves...
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RDF veterans urged to join war against poverty
Brig.Gen Eric Murokore (R) and the Chief Operating Officer of BK, Lawson Naibo (c) together with another senior RDF officer launching the kitchen gardens Ex-combatants were challenged to wage war against poverty in the country, using the same determination...
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Minister Musoni urges councilors to stay committed
Eastern Province coucillors at the retreat during a morale building session. KIGALI - District Advisory Councillors from the Eastern Province, yesterday, pledged to diligently serve the people. The councillors made the pledge at the end of a two-day retreat...
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Assets of Teachers’ saving scheme double
(L-R)Joseph Museruka the Managing Director of UMWALIMU SACCO, and JMV Nzagahimana, Chairman Board of Directors at the meeting, yesterday. KIGALI - The assets of the Teachers’ Credit and Savings Cooperative, commonly known as Umwalimu SACCO, increased...
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Our lives have been transformed - Iwawa students
Iwawa youth work on a brick making machine. The skills training center is well equipped. KIVU - With less than a month to graduation, former street children who spent a year at the Youth Rehabilitation and Vocational Skills Development Centre, located...
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TIGO honours Genocide victims
TIGO’s Head of Sales and Customer Care, Diego Camberos hands over a cheque of Rwf1 million to the Kigali Memorial Centre administrator (courtesy photo). GISOZI - Staff of TIGO Rwanda, yesterday, visited Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre to pay their respects...
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Bisesero Genocide survivors on recovery course
The mayor of Karongi, Bernard Kayumba, who is a Bisesero survivor (File photo). KARONGI- 17 years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, it is evident that survivors in Bisesero, Karongi District are now leading better lives. Residents in the area...
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Genocide Exhibition kicks off in Kigali
Prime Minister Makuza and other ministers tour the Genocide Exhibition yesterday. The National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG), yesterday, launched the ‘Genocide Exhibition’ as part of the preparations for the 17th commemoration of the...