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For the first time in the country's history, women now have rights of inheritance ... the needs of the 400,000 refugees who fled Kigali during the war. By the time she left office in 1998 ...
Human Rights Watch said M23 forcibly ordered hundreds of thousands to leave camps near Goma ...
They captured Kigali and the murderers fled to Congo, where they still are today. Rwandan troops later pursued them and became embroiled in a grueling jungle war between ... The UN is now ...
Both Kigali ... It is now reportedly linked to the ISIL (ISIS) armed group. CODECO: The Cooperative for Development of the Congo (CODECO) was formed in 1999 during the Second Congo War.
The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ... the time by Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Kigali justified both efforts by arguing ...
From trading verbal blows to shutting down flights, the relations between Kinshasa and Kigali, which have seen signs of thawing under the current administrations, are now undergoing a diplomatic ...
Sept. 5, 2011 file photo, Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire listens to the judge during the her trial in Kigali, Rwanda.
Kigali – the capital of Rwanda – may be just such a city. After being decimated by the genocide 13 years ago it now seems to be exploding out of the ashes like a phoenix in the African heartland.
The 27th African Union Summit in Kigali showcased a city on the rise ... generating a fierce backlash against a perceived “war on the poor.” South African cities such as Cape Town and ...
The recent piece by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media, to President Muhammadu Buhari, titled “warning shots from Kigali” after ... Yakubu Gowon, who as post-war leader had the best ...
Having transmitted from the Kigali hilltops for 50 years, it was spared neither Cold War tensions nor the ghastliness ... fall back on their own ingenuity. During the trial phase, they planted ...
American singer-songwriter John Legend has told the BBC he is unfazed by a public backlash against his decision to perform in Rwanda, despite the country's involvement in the war in neighbouring ...