The only two baby mountain gorillas in captivity -- orphaned two years ago after their mothers were slain in massacres -- will soon be getting a lush, new playpen, Congo's wildlife authority announced.
Kigali — The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations to follow suit. Allan Doss, the United Nations top envoy...
TX: BBC World News, Friday 27 November Screening at COP15 Climate Change conference As the globe prepares for COP15, a new documentary on BBC World optimistically reframes the debate on global warming. Illustrating that large,...
KIGALI, Rwanda, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A former speaker of the Rwandan Parliament has warned his country could again spiral into a dark world of violence. The warning comes 15 years after genocide killed up to 1 million people in the...
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A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ordered the immediate release of Fr....
The uninspiring granite exterior of the London Stock Exchange provided the quiet backdrop for a meeting that would almost have gone unnoticed, if it did not have such a strong bearing on Africa's growth prospects.
Qifa Nabki has decided to touch the third rail of Lebanese politics (or at least one of them): the status of Palestinian refugees, who make up somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the population of Lebanon. He discusses the...
In the midst of a lot of pain in others’ lives they have shared with me and grief and sadness in my own, I am choosing today to be thankful and thought I would list 20 things I am thankful for right now. 1. Gabriel’s belly...
There was some exciting news out of Africa yesterday. The East African Community appears to be moving forward at a remarkable pace towards a common market. The four countries, comprised of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda,...