VIDEO: Rwanda: From ministers to exiles

A BBC investigation has uncovered new information suggesting that the killing of former high ranking Rwandan intelligence official Col Patrick Karegeya may be linked to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The year 2020 has confirmed to the whole world that one of the most important and toughest portfolios to hold in a government is that of a Minister of Health.

In Africa, our health ministers have been at the forefront of the fight against the Corona Virus pandemic and with support from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, there's hope of Africans rising from this pandemic, scathed but stronger.

Primary among the roles of a health minister are overseeing the formulation of...

Rwandan R&B, Afrobeat and dancehall singer, Tom Close has released visuals for his mouth watering single ‘ Zero Distance’, featuring the Uganda’s first BET winner Eddy Kenzo. The video for this East Africa collaboration was shot in Kigali, Rwanda by Kenya’s leading director Enos Olik. Tom Close is a multiple award winning artist who also […]

Cuban exile Joe Arriola at one time would never have dreamed of returning to his homeland while it was under communist rule.

A section of Rwandans in the diaspora yesterday protested against a move by Rwanda’s parliament to amend the constitution and lift term limits, giving President Paul Kagame lee way to offer himself for another term after his current tenure expires in 2017.

Rwanda has begun a week of official mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the country's genocide, when at least 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, died at the hands of extremists.

In just three months in 1994, some six million Rwandans were displaced and more than 800,000 were killed.

The United Nations says the on-going conflict in South Sudan has a disturbing echo of events in Rwanda 20 years ago.

Commemorations have been taking place across Rwanda to mark 20 years since the 1994 genocide.