AFP

06/07/11

NEW YORK — Rwanda's President Paul Kagame bristled Tuesday at suggestions that democracy is not flourishing in his country, and said that the 93 percent of the vote he won last year was not enough.

Kagame said Rwanda enjoys a multi-party political system and that he supports "a right that allows anybody, everybody to express themselves."

He said the will of the people was expressed during last year's presidential election. "So, 93 percent — I wonder why it wasn't higher than that," Kagame told the Council on Foreign Relations, a prominent New York-based think tank.

When a senior Human Rights Watch director in the audience challenged Kagame, the president said he did not want to hear "lectures."

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AFP

06/03/11

KIGALI — A mountain gorilla in northern Rwanda has given birth to twins, a rare occurrence for an endangered species whose numbers have dwindled to less than 800, officials said Friday.

"The two babies, one male and one female, were born May 27," said Rica Rwigamba, head of tourism and conservation at the Rwanda Development Board.

"The two new-borns and their mother Ruvumu are well," she said.

It is only the seventh time in the last 40 years that a gorilla has given birth to twins. Twin gorillas were last born in February.

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Official Website

06/02/11

Kigali – The Minister of Health, Dr. Agnes Binagwaho has called for increased health information and surveillance for detection and monitoring of multidrug-resistant as well as extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) across the continent. Dr. Binagwaho made these remarks during the official opening ceremony a five-day workshop on Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR) which brings together experts from 17 English Speaking countries of Africa.

“We are very happy to host such a high level meeting in Kigali because it gives us an opportunity to better manage our health sectors. Tuberculosis knows no borders so when we only manage TB and not MDR, our efforts would be in vain,” she said.

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By Belinda Luscombe

06/01/11

Seventeen years on, how has Rwanda dealt with the aftermath of the genocide?
We had a National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, which brought all Rwandans of different backgrounds together to discuss their past, our past, what went wrong and how we can find a remedy. I think people are trying to say, we are better than this. We didn’t deserve this. We can draw lessons from our history but not be trapped there.

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From David McKenzie, CNN

06/01/11

• Rwandan Sina Gerard is a self-made millionaire
• His businesses interests include producing fruit juice, banana wine and his famous chili sauce
• He has founded a school to help youngsters be successful
• Gerard trains local farmers and sees potential in Rwanda's agriculture

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El Memeyi Murangwa

05/31/11

On May 31, 1994 the life of Captain Mbaye Diagne the true Hero of Hotel des Milles Collines in Rwanda ended up accidently after being hit by a mortar shell which landed on his Jeep when he approached a check point on his way to UN Headquarter with a message from a Rwandese army Officer, Augustin Bizimungu to Commander Dallaire of UNAMIR.  

Senegalese Army officer and a United Nations military observer during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Captain Mbaye saved many lives. He did through a continuous risky rescue missions at great peril to himself, but his tremendous work is being claimed by an impostor who collect award and money to be used not for humanitarian purpose but to disturb the Great Lake Region.

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