The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Refugee Council study suggests asylum claims by three out of four crossing Channel would be granted

Johnston Busingye said it was ‘immoral for [Britain] to still see themselves as the refugee country’

Domestic trials of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are considered quicker, cheaper and more responsive to victims’ needs than the International Criminal Court’s trials in The Hague.

Four memorials to the 1994 Rwanda genocide are now part of UNESCO's World Heritage list. The sites at Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero commemorate the mass killings of a majority of Tutsis but also moderate Hutus, between April and July 1994. Meanwhile, the Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is…

A serial killer in Rwanda has pleaded guilty at a court saying he killed 14 people

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said for the first time he plans to run for a fourth term in elections due to be held next year.

UN cultural body says memorial sites for human suffering can play a key role in peacebuilding.

Noureddin Bongo Valentin, the eldest son of ousted Gabonese president Ali Bongo, has been charged with corruption, embezzlement of public funds and money laundering. Several cabinet members were also indicted. Also in this edition: famine aid for Somalia is to be temporarily suspended after a UN probe found widespread theft…

Rwanda’s president says he will run for a fourth term next year and declares that “what the West thinks is not my problem,” after the United States and others criticized the past lifting of term limits to extend his rule