Rwanda: Nairobi High Commission Gets New Premises
Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo yesterday presided over the official opening of the newly built premises for Rwanda’s High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya.
Congo-Kinshasa: Small-Scale Farmers Say They Just Need Land
The more than 800 small-scale farmers belonging to co-operatives around the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, could produce enough rice and vegetables for the capital’s estimated eight million inhabitants, according to the country’s agriculture ministry.
Rwanda: Over 130 Graduate in Technical Courses at KCT
Kicukiro College of Technology (KCT) on Friday awarded certificates of competence to 132 trainers in various disciplines.
Pretoria Journal: Holiday of White Conquest Persists in South Africa
As Afrikaners celebrate an 1838 covenant said to have led to the slaughter of 3,000 Zulus, the ideal of a rainbow nation now seems little more than a deft turn of phrase.
World Briefing | Africa: Sudan: Opposition Supporters Face Charges for Rally
Up to 48 opposition supporters will face charges for taking part in a banned rally near Parliament calling for democratic reforms, officials said Tuesday.
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South African Who Oversaw Discredited AIDS Policy, Dies at 69
Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang questioned the causal connection between H.I.V. and AIDS and promoted dietary measures rather than drug treatments.
World Briefing | Africa: Somali Pirates Release Ship and Crew After 6 Months
The company paid a ransom to the gunmen who held the Greek-owned vessel MT Ariana and its 24 Ukrainian crew members for more than six months.
U.N. Experts Get Threats in Inquiry Into Somalia
Businessmen may be funneling aid to terrorist groups, and members of a panel investigating this possibility have received death threats.
Congo-Kinshasa: 1,200 Killed and 1,400 Abducted in 10-Month LRA Rampage in DRC
A new report released Monday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and MONUC (the UN Mission in DR Congo) outlines a rolling series of attacks carried out over a ten-month period by the renegade armed group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), during which they killed at least 1,200 people, abducted 1,400 – including some 600 children and 400 women – and displaced a total of around 230,000 people.
Rwanda: Gov’t Issues Fresh Ultimatum to ‘One Cow’ Project Defaulters
Government has issued a final deadline to individuals who are accused of illegally benefitting from the ‘One Cow per Poor Family’ project popularly known as ‘Girinka’ to return the cows not later than February 1 next year.
