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The United States Africa Command, under the directive of President George Bush, will soon airlift Rwandan equipment meant for the Rwandan peacekeepers from Kigali to war ravaged Darfur in Sudan.
Rwandan Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga, has confirmed that at least 17 people are under investigations for their involvement in mismanagement of Funds for Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG), established some ten years ago.
The Acting Commissioner General of Police, Mary Gahonzire, has praised the media over the role they played in alerting the population on matters concerning security during 2008.
Today we investigate a report of a Rwandan national, Scovia Mbabazi, who is said to have kidnapped a 15 year old boy here in Rwanda, with the intention of selling him in Uganda.
As Director of State Protocol Rose Kabuye travels back to France today, opinion leaders at various levels have given their take on the case.
Rwanda Tea Authority (Ocir-The), a government agency has said that it will require a financial outlay of US$41Million (Rwf.23 Billion) worth of investments in the sector if it is to achieve the 9,000 hectares of extra tea plantations it is targeting by 2012.
Rwanda will have to score three un-answered goals against Zanzibar this afternoon and keep their fingers crossed hoping that Uganda beat Tanzania 2-0 if they are to squeeze to the semi-finals of the on-going Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
NATIONAL and Nkumba Marines basketball star Norman Blick has revealed his desire to return to the court but this time for league champions Sadolin Power.
Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Engr. Sani Muhammed Ndanusa has charged the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) board members to ensure that Nigeria's team (Flying Eagles) to the forthcoming Africa Youth Championship in Rwanda do well, since the tournament would determine their future at the Glass House.
Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission (NSC), Sani Ndanusa, has charged the Sani Lulu-led board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to deliver the African Youth Championship (AYC) trophy, which kicks off Januray 18 in Rwanda. He warns that the assignment would serve as test case of the commitment of the board on goals and vision of his administration.
Rwanda's U-20 team currently on a month long training camp in North Africa extended its unbeaten run by defeating Egypt's U-20 side 2-1 in Cairo Wednesday.
Kilimanjaro national park, Mountains of the Mooon ice is melting at fast rate due to climatic changes.
The Chinese Embassy in Rwanda has donated over Rwf 39m towards the Presidential Fund as a gesture of good cooperation between the two counties.
Zambia's French coach Herve Renard has ruled out his team Chipolopolo making it to 2010 World Cup finals due in South Africa.
Usine Textile du Rwanda (Utexrwa), Rwanda's only textile company plans to diversify its textile products to producing pineapple fabrics.
RWANDA'S upcoming tennis star Hamis Gatete stormed into the semi finals of the East Africa Junior Tennis Championship yesterday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The first consignment of 24 fuel trucks has left the Kenyan port of Mombasa for Kigali as part of the 12 million litres of fuel for the national fuel reserves.
Police are holding a taxi driver for allegedly bribing a police officer with Rwf20 000 so that the latter could facilitate the former's vehicle that had failed to pass a mechanical test.
Several teams set to take part in the forthcoming African Youth Championship due in Kigali January 18-February 1 have relocated their training camps in East Africa to acclimatize themselves with the weather in Rwanda ahead of the two week tournament.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has appointed 64-year-old Joseph Masanche of Tanzania, ad litem (temporary) Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) effective January, this year, as part of efforts to bridge gap of seven judges who left the UN court last December.
Genocide-accused Lieutenant Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi's lead counsel, William Taylor, has opposed to prosecution summoning new witnesses when the defendant's re-trial, as ordered by the UN Appeals court, opens on Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), reports Hirondelle Agency.
The initial surveying for the construction of the 27.5 MW Nyabarongo hydro-power plant, the biggest of its kind in the country, is well in progress an official from the Infrastructure ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
It seems that some government agencies want to clean house in a dramatic fashion to start the New Year with clean linen which they can proudly show in public.
The Secretary General of the Council for East and Central African Football Association (Cecafa) has said the regional body will not change the format of the Senior Challenge Cup.
The Director of State Protocol, Rose Kabuye, will Friday head back to France to report in court on January 10 as earlier pronounced, Information Minister Louise Mushikiwabo confirmed yesterday.
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