Kigali — Parliament yesterday gave a nod to the ratification of the African Union protocol on prevention and combating of terrorism which was adopted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July 2004. The protocol sets out obligations of...
I want to bring the spotlight back to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) in 1995 ushered in a new era in terms of addressing women's empowerment and...
Members of Parliament from both Chambers will tomorrow convene in a two-day seminar to assess the country's situation regarding the implementation of the Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women...
The Vice Speaker of Parliament, Polisi Denis, yesterday met the Ambassadors of Greece and the Republic of Slovakia and discused various areas where both their parliaments can learn from each other, The New Times reports.
On November 27, 2009, the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting will be convening in Trinidad and Tobago. Rwanda's fingers will be crossed as it will be awaiting the outcome of the meeting which will determine...
Two Rwandan Hutu rebel leaders were arrested by Germany, charged with directing war crimes. Some 4,000 miles away from the spiral of violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the simultaneous arrests of two key...
Nairobi — Political parties within the East Africa Community bloc will be encouraged to forge alliances with like-minded parties in the region. After the Common Market comes into force, the focus will shift to Political...
opinion Nairobi — Sometime in the late 1990s, as donors tightened the purse strings on Kenya, a desperate President Moi dashed to London to plead Kenya's case before the head of the World Bank. Like in Chinua Achebe's The...
Delegates at the just concluded East African Community (EAC) symposium have demanded that members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) be elected by ordinary citizens and not by parliaments.
Bosco R. Asiimwe and Rwaguma Kihesi Kigali — The Junior Chamber International (JCI-Rwanda), a worldwide federation of youth leaders and entrepreneurs, yesterday elected new committee for 2010. JCI provides development...