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Rwanda: Assassination attempt linked to President Kagame
A critic of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has survived an assassination attempt in South Africa, and his wife has claimed that President Kagame wanted...
Rwanda: Persecution of independent newspapers extended to online versions
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its concern about the harassment of independent newspapers in Rwanda after learning that access to the Umuvugizi news website has...
EAC- EC economic partnership agreement negotiations held in Dar Es Salaam
The third negotiations session between the East African Community (EAC) Partner States and the European Commission (EC) on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) ended...
DR Congo-Rwanda: New Tutsi state breeds tension
A state-within-a-state controlled by former Congolse-Tutsi rebels, is emerging in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo once controlled by the Hutu perpetrators...
Rwanda: Jailed US genocide denialist lawyer charged on another count
A U.S. law professor, jailed upon arrival in Rwanda -- where he was to help with the legal defence of an opposition leader charged...
Uganda: Ethiopian led river Nile agreement signed without Egypt and Sudan
River Nile basin states have today signed an agreement on the Nile river basin cooperative framework in which they agreed to collectively work towards...
Rwanda: Political and linguistic change under a prominent leader?
The horrors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide came ended when the RPF- led by U.S. trained Officer Paul Kagame defeated the genocide perpetrators and...
New IUCEA Executive Secretary and Deputy Executive Secretary
The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) has appointed Prof. Mayunga Habib Hemedi Nkunya from Tanzania to the post of the IUCEA Executive Secretary...
Brazil lauds EAC, seeks closer ties: Country ready to co-operate in areas of technology, energy, railways and environment
Brazil has commended the East African Community (EAC) integration process and has expressed its desire to work closely with the five-nation regional bloc. Brazil's...
Eastern Africa commemorates World Press Freedom Day 2010 (Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Madagascar)
UNESCO Offices in Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Bujumbura, together with the United Nations Communication Group in Tanzania and media stakeholders in the East-African...
Uganda: 3rd East African Investment Conference
The 3rd East African Investment Conference was held at the Commonwealth Speke Resort, Munyonyo from 27th - 30th April 2010 under the theme "EAC...
East African Community (EAC) adopts one laptop per child initiative
The East African Community today partnered with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to help provide every child...
Rwanda: Opposition leader must receive fair trial
Amnesty International urges the Rwandan Government to ensure that opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, receives a swift, fair trial on charges including genocide ideology and...
East African Community Investment Conference lauds development
Uganda's president ,Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today officially opened the 3rd East African Community Investment Conference at Munyonyo Resort hotel in the outskirts of...
Rwanda: Editor of bi-monthly acquitted on appeal
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the acquittal on appeal of Asumani Niyonambaza, editor of the bi-monthly newspaper Rugari.
A judge at the Nyarugenge High Court...
Council chairperson assures community on ratification of common market protocol – Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda complete ratification process
The Chairperson of the East African Community Council of Ministers, Hon. Dr. Diodorus Kamala has assured the people of East Africa that Partner States...
Rwanda: Political oppression or insurance of civil stability
US-based Human Rights Watch has accused Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame of attacking and intimidating his critics in the run-up to Augusts’ presidential election, but...
EAC inter-state security ministers meet in Bujumbura: Meeting witnesses public destruction of illicit arms
The Deputy Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC) in charge of Political Federation, Hon. Beatrice Kiraso, has said that the region's stability...
East African Community: Clarification on the use of the East African passport
Following a Media Conference two weeks ago, which the Secretary General of the East African Community had held in Arusha to announce and promote...
EACJ scales up sensitisation on arbitration in the partner states
The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has organised a series of sensitisation workshops on its arbitration jurisdiction in the capitals of the five...
The UN Secretary-general message on the sixteenth commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda
Today, we observe the sixteenth commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda. We cherish the memory of more than 800,000 innocent people who lost...
EAC steps up preparations for 3rd EAC investment conference / World Bank to launch report on doing business in the EAC at Conference
The East African Community Secretariat has stepped up preparations for the 3rd EAC Investment Conference confirming the date and theme for the event due...
Zuma defends two wanted Rwandans and lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
South African president Jacob Zuma has defended his country over hosting two wanted army officers from Rwanda, and called on the United Nations to...
Rwanda and Tanzania to sign bilateral agreement on one-stop border post at Rusumo on Friday 26 March 2010 in Arusha, Tanzania
The Governments of the Republic of Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania are expected to sign a Bilateral Agreement for the establishment and...
Tanzania: 20th ordinary meeting of the EAC Council of Ministers to begin Friday 19 March in Arusha
The 20th Ordinary Meeting of the East African Community Council of Ministers is scheduled to run from 19 to 26 March 2010 at the...
ICTR: Appeals Chamber Affirms Bikindi’s Conviction and Sentence, Reduces Nchamihigo’s Sentence
The Appeals Chamber of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda today rendered two judgements; ...
EAC to hold workshop on regional armed forces HIV/AIDS prevention and control
The East African Community has organised a three-day workshop on mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS prevention, control, treatment, care and support into Partner States' national Armed...
International panel engages EAC on agricultural innovation
An International Advisory Panel on Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project led by Professor Calestous Juma of the Harvard Kennedy School, USA, paid a working...
EAC heads of prisons/correctional services hold inaugural meeting in Arusha
The inaugural meeting of the EAC Heads of Prisons/Correctional Services ended today at the Naura Springs Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania. The inaugural meeting was...
Rwandan President receives UNAMID JSR
On 28 February, UNAMID's Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari concluded a two-day visit to Kigali, Rwanda, where he hosted the first-ever Retreat between...