Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics
Kigali, Rwanda Reuters Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s government said on Friday it would take as many migrants as Britain sends its way and urged “shouting” critics of the deportation plan to now let both nations proceed. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expects first flights to leave in 10 to 12 weeks after parliament passed legislation […]
Rwanda’s President leads genocide commemoration 30 years on
Kigali, Rwanda Reuters Rwanda’s president on Sunday led commemorations to mark 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed more than 1 million people and said the conditions that led to the slaughter would never be allowed to exist again in his country’s politics. Over 100 days, starting on 7th April, 1994, Tutsis and moderate […]
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Rusesabagina freed from Rwandan jail
Washington DC, US/Kigali, Rwanda Reuters Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in the film Hotel Rwanda, was released from a Rwandan prison on Friday, US officials said, after his sentence was commuted following intense diplomacy by the United States. Rusesabagina, a US permanent resident, was accompanied by a US embassy official as he […]
East Congo clashes resume after de-escalation agreement with Rwanda
Kinshasa, Democratoc Republic of CongoReuters Clashes broke out in eastern Congo on Thursday between the military and M23 rebels, a civil society and a rebel source said, a day after the presidents of Congo and Rwanda agreed to de-escalate diplomatic tensions over the insurgency. The M23, which Congo accuses Rwanda of supporting, began a major […]
Pope Francis asks forgiveness for failings of Catholic Church during Rwandan genocide
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the “sins and failings” of the Catholic Church during the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a meeting with the country’s President Paul Kagame. A statement from the Vatican said that during a meeting at the Holy See this week, the Pope “conveyed his profound sadness” for the genocide in […]