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Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:40:12 GMT
Rwanda: Outsourcing Asylum Seekers - the Case of Rwanda and the UK
[The Conversation Africa] British media is awash with reports that Boris Johnson's government has agreed a deal with Rwanda to have asylum seekers processed there rather than in the UK. There had previously been disagreement in Johnson's cabinet abou...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:02:49 GMT
Cameroon: Cameroon Offers Shelter, Aid to Abandoned Street Children
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Authorities in Cameroon moved 150 children from the streets of the capital to centers for abandoned kids on Tuesday as part of its observance of International Day for Street Children. The government says the number of stree...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:47:25 GMT
Central Africa: 300 Great Lakes Traders to Participate in Kigoma Forum
[Daily News] KIGOMA Region is set to host a trade forum of business personnel from the five Great Lakes countries to strengthen the economies of those countries through cross-border trade activities and investment.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:37:50 GMT
East Africa: EAC Seeks Resolve to Recurrent Political Crisis in DRC
[Daily News] THE East African Community (EAC) is mulling over plans of involving eminent persons in the region, to resolve the recurrent political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 05:24:24 GMT
Rwanda: Kwibuka 28 - Amavubi Captain Niyonzima Calls for Unity
[New Times] The national football team captain Haruna Niyonzima has called for love and unity in the country as a symbol to appreciate the work of the men and women who liberated the country in July 1994 from the Genocide against the Tutsi which clai...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 05:23:52 GMT
Rwanda: Volleyball - Gisagara, REG Set for 2022 Africa Championship
[New Times] Local volleyball league defending champions Gisagara and Rwanda Energy Group (REG) will represent Rwanda in the men's African Club Championships slated in Tunis, Tunisia from May 5-18.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 05:22:57 GMT
Rwanda: Police Host Musanze as League Returns
[New Times] The national football league returns this weekend after the commemoration week in honour of the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:15:18 GMT
Chad: Sudanese Teen Drowned in Eastern Chad 'Valley of Death'
[Dabanga] Goz Amer Camp -- A 13-year-old Sudanese girl has drowned, her friend injured, and her sister narrowly escaped, after getting into difficulty in a river that runs past the Goz Amer camp near to the South Darfur border in eastern Chad, that r...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:37:39 GMT
Rwanda: ADEPR Rallies Youth Against Genocide Ideology
[New Times] Emmanuel Dusabimana, a university student and member of the Pentecostal Church of Rwanda - ADEPR, is saddened by the awful fact that all the Tutsis who were living in his native area Manwari, Nyamagabe District were exterminated during th...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:29:17 GMT
Rwanda: Police Recover 560kgs of Metallic Equipment Stolen From Utility Firms
[New Times] Rwanda National Police (RNP) has recovered over 560kgs of assorted metallic equipment stolen from utility companies in Kigali, and arrested four people in connection with the act.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:03:30 GMT
Rwanda: Slain Politicians Remembered as Commemoration Week Ends
[New Times] Those who continue to deny the Genocide against the Tutsi with an aim to conceal their role in the dark history, under the basis of freedom of speech should be reminded that they are wasting time.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:02:20 GMT
Rwanda: Kwibuka 28 - Rayon Sports Pay Homage to Departed Souls
[New Times] Players and officials of Rayon Sports have paid tribute to the people who lost their lives in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 05:47:20 GMT
Kenya: Kenya and DR Congo Sign Bilateral Cooperation in the Agricultural Sector
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- In April 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta and H.E. President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo held bilateral talks in Kinshasa, Congo. At the event, the two countries signed a Defence agreement and held techn...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:03:00 GMT
Rwanda: Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville Sign Eight Pacts
[New Times] President Paul Kagame and President Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville on Tuesday presided over the signing of eight agreements as part of the efforts to deepen bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:45:55 GMT
Rwanda: France Promises to Try a Genocide Suspect Every Six Months
[New Times] The French government is mulling ways that will see at least two suspects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi tried every year, as part of the efforts to give justice to the over a million victims.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:21:57 GMT
Central Africa: Food Crisis Inches Toward Record High in West, Central Africa
[VOA] Dakar, Senegal -- An estimated 250 million people in Africa lack access to daily food, with the number impacted in west and central Africa expected to reach a record high. Officials and aid groups from more than 50 African countries meet this w...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:11 GMT
Rwanda: Rwanda is Showing How It Should Be Done - Ghanaian Social Entrepreneur
[New Times] Twenty-eight years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwanda recovered and made tremendous progress that should inspire other African countries to change the narrative that African is poor and disorganised.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:04:14 GMT
Rwanda: On This Day - How RPA Captured Mt Rebero and What It Meant
[New Times] Rebero was a highly strategic feature for the RPA as it afforded the enemy a vantage point from which they could target and hit any location around Kigali.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:17 GMT
Rwanda: Volleyball Memorial Tournament Set for June
[New Times] The Rwanda volleyball fraternity will honour the victims of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi with a volleyball tournament slated for June 4-5, according to the federation technical director, Gertrude Kubwimana.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:16 GMT
Rwanda: BAL 2022 - Robert Pack in Egypt to Scout Rwanda Energy Group's Opponents
[New Times] Robert Pack Jr, the American coach of Rwanda Energy Group (REG) Basketball club is currently in Cairo - Egypt to attend group-stage games of the Nile Conference, as a way of keeping an eye on his team's potential opponents at the playoffs...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:14 GMT
Tanzania/Rwanda: Tanzania to Host 2022 Cecafa Kagame Club Championship
[New Times] Tanzania will host the 46th edition of the prestigious CECAFA Kagame club championship this year.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:13 GMT
Rwanda: Cricket - Zimbabwe to Participate in Kwibuka Women T20
[New Times] Africa's Cricket powerhouse Zimbabwe is one of the teams to watch in the much-anticipated 2022 Kwibuka Women's T20, the Cricket governing body (RCA) has confirmed.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:08 GMT
Rwanda: Ferwafa Set to Organise Annual Memorial Tourney
[New Times] Rwanda football federation is planning to organise a Genocide memorial tournament for regional national teams in June, the federation Secretary General Henry Muhire has revealed.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:06 GMT
Rwanda: Kwibuka 28 - Health Ministry Pays Tribute to Ex-Employees
[New Times] The Ministry of Health on April 12 paid tribute to the 41 former staff who were killed during the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 as Rwandans mark the 28th commemoration.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:03 GMT
Rwanda: No Stronger Message of Hope Than That of Rwanda - UN Country Chief
[New Times] Fode Ndiaye, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Rwanda said that there is no stronger message of hope than that of what Rwanda has already accomplished through committing to unity and reconciliation.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:01 GMT
Rwanda: Rwandans Living in Midwestern United States Urged to Fight Genocide Ideology
[New Times] Rwandan living in the Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest in Northern Central part of United States, have been urged to intensify the fight against those denying and trivialising the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:46:00 GMT
Rwanda: Ambassador Sezibera Underscores Rwanda's Major Lessons From the Genocide
[New Times] Long before 1994, the world had said Never Again to genocide. But in the same year, it happened yet again. More than one million people were killed in 100 days during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:45:57 GMT
Rwanda: Genocide Survivors Push for Appeal of Belgian Soldiers' Case
[New Times] The Umbrella organisation of the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, IBUKA, is pushing for the appeal of a court case in which Belgian troops are accused of abandoning Tutsis to the men with machetes.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:45:53 GMT
Rwanda: Nyamagabe Women Starting Small Businesses From Saving Groups Proceeds
[New Times] Vulnerable women from Musange Sector in Nyamagabe District are reaping big from saving and loan groups that have enabled them to establish profitable small businesses and graduate out of extreme poverty.

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:35:10 GMT
Kenya: Kenyan Firms Commit Funding of U.S.$1.6 Billion in DR Congo
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Twenty-six Kenyan companies have committed trade investments worth USD 1.6Billion in the Democratic Republic of Congo.



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