Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has said they have so far captured thousands of weapons from the neighbouring Rwanda. Nkurunziza was on Thursday addressing a press conference at his new Gitega palace in Burundi’s Political Capital. He said over 2,000 arms from Rwanda have been captured since 2014 along with attackers who have confessed. Towards mid-December,…
(CNN)Jackie Umuhoza was coming out of a beauty salon in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in late November when she was grabbed by five men and bundled into a van, her family says. Frantic friends and family raised the alarm on social media and discovered that Rwanda’s security forces had detained her on charges of…
The government is screening and giving necessary support to 1,100 children and 371 women recently sent home from neighboring DR Congo after being separated from anti-Rwanda militia race Mugabe, a communications specialist at the Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission (RDRC), said they are all assembled at Nyarushishi Transit Center in Rusizi District where everything possible…
President Paul Kagame has talked about the possibility of not running for a fourth term, noting that his wish is for a woman to replace him when he retires from office. “My wish is that one day, a woman takes up this position that you gave me,” Kagame told delegates during the Nation Address at…
President Paul Kagame has warned Rwandans involved in acts that destabilize the country, vowing that “the cost is going to be very high.” In a speech delivered in parliament on Thursday, November 14, during the swearing-in ceremony of new Cabinet members, President Kagame said: “Those who want to destabilize our country will incur a very…
Rwanda’s international cooperation efforts seek partnership with the rest of the world for shared gains not pursuing favours as a darling of the world, President Paul Kagame has said. Kagame was speaking in Qatar at the 2019 Doha Forum, a leading thought platform which discusses varied topics including trends and technology, trade and investment, human…
Uganda has been left sole organiser of the East African Community games after Parliaments in Rwanda and South Sudan boycotted the games, choosing not to send delegates and to further rub salt into the wound, the two nations didn’t explain why they boycotted the games. The 10th edition of the annual East African Community Inter-Parliamentary…
Burundi accused Rwanda of sending troops earlier this month to attack one of its military positions and pledged to “use legitimate defense” if its northern neighbor continues the hostility. Eight Burundian soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked their camp close to the Rwandan border on Nov. 16. The invaders retreated back into Rwanda after the…
The sour relationship between the governments of Rwanda and Uganda have worsened after President Paul Kagame reportedly issued a blockade on Ugandan media houses. We have learnt that the first media house to suffer the brunt of Kagame’s wrath us Nation Media Group’s Daily Monitor, which has since been banned from circulation in Rwanda. It…
The prosecution received 3,363 child defilement cases in 2018/2019 fiscal year, and the conviction rate was 93.7 percent, Jean-Bosco Mutangana, the Prosecutor General has said. Defilement cases rose from more than 2,000 in the previous year, which Mutangana said is a considerable increase, citing the increase in defilement and rape , and encouraging people to…
