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Paul Kagame ( ; born 23 October 1957) is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), whose military victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Rwanda's highest court on Friday rejected an appeal by an opposition politician who was convicted for organizing an illegal gathering, inciting ethnic division and threatening state security.
Bernard Ntaganda, a former leader of Rwanda's PS-Imberakuri party, was not in court when the ruling was made to uphold his four-year jail sentence. He was arrested in July 2010 and convicted in February 2011.Ntaganda, a Hutu, was accused of describing the government of President Paul Kagame as Tutsi-dominated and then calling for a power-sharing agreement between majority Hutus and minority Tutsis. He denied all the charges.He is the third opposition leader to be charged under the country's stringent anti-genocide ideology laws that have been criticized by human rights watchdogs.Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire, leader of FDU-Inkingi and a prominent Kagame critic, faces charges of genocide denial, threatening state security and inciting ethnic division. She announced earlier this month she would start boy...The four men were once members of the Rwandan president's inner circle. Now they've fled the country and say they fear for their lives even in exile as he steps up e...
Police have warned some Rwandan exiles living in Britain that their lives are in danger, issuing letters of concern after the men criticized the government of the ea...
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Abdul Ruzibiza, a former captain of a Tutsi rebel group and key witness in a French judge's investigation into a 1994 attack that triggered the R...
Rwanda's High Court has sentenced an opposition leader to four years in prison and fined three others opposition figures in a trial that an international human right...
Rwandan police arrested the country's most prominent opposition leader Thursday and accused her of forming a terrorist organization, months after she was barred from...
A French judge has filed preliminary charges against six people close to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, including the defense minister, over the 1994 assassination...
Rwanda's top prosecutor said Monday that he is ready to file charges against an American law professor and force the U.S. citizen back to Rwanda to face proceedings ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's foreign ministry says foreign "security operatives" were involved in the shooting of an exiled Rwandan general.Foreign Ministry of...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame celebrated an overwhelming election victory by dancing with thousands of supporters early Tuesday, after oppositi...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A Rwandan judge Monday turned down a bail application by an American lawyer charged with denying Rwanda's 1994 genocide and publishing articles...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Rwandan general accused of terrorism in his homeland was shot and wounded in South Africa on Saturday, his wife said, blaming Rwandan President...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A U.S. lawyer released from a Rwandan prison on medical grounds credited America's Secretary of State with his release but said Sunday the U.S....
President Obama on Friday morning nominated Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College, as president of the World Bank."I believe nobody is more qualified,...
Young people tweeting from BlackBerries and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa , with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new re...
Human Rights Watch is urging Uganda's government to conduct a "transparent" investigation into the murder of a Rwandan journalist.The group said in a statement Tuesd...
The mass graves are hidden in the darkening shade of a hard-to-reach banana plantation, high up a mountain above the cloud line, at the end of a treacherous dirt tra...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A draft U.N. report says the Rwandan army that ended the 1994 slaughter of more than 500,000 people retaliated with barbaric killings in Congo tw...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — President Paul Kagame is expected to handily win Monday's vote after overseeing years of economic and social development in Rwanda despite a re...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Rwandan court is expected to rule Thursday on whether a jailed law professor from Minnesota should be freed on bail for health reasons, his fami...
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