Making his ruling, Lt-Gen. Joseph Mutombo Katalayi said Kabila participated in a plot to topple an elected government. DR Congo also pins Rwanda for aiding the M23 rebels, claims Rwanda vehemently denies. While still in power, Joseph Kabila strongly opposed a proposal by the Congolese parliament, of exempting former heads of state from trial in […]
Rwanda’s Parliament has fired back at Brussels after the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for the release of opposition figure Victoire Ingabire and urging a review of EU aid to Kigali. In a rare show of unity, both chambers of Rwanda’s legislature denounced the resolution as neocolonial interference and an attack on national sovereignty. […]
According to the statement, in 2007, the Nyange Gacaca court convicted Gasana and sentenced him to 19 years in prison for his role in the crime of genocide. Court Dismisses Besigye, Lutale Bail Application Norway on Friday extradited to Rwanda a suspect in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, which claimed the lives of more […]
Through cross-border security coordination, Rwandan authorities assisted in the exhumation and repatriation of the remains to Uganda. Two men accused of killing a coffee farmer in Rukiga District and smuggling parts of his dismembered body into Rwanda have been charged with murder and remanded to prison. The deceased, identified as Milton Bagambira alias Obote, aged […]
The President of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), Isaac Ssemakadde has allegedly fled the country following the High Court of Uganda ordering his arrest and imprisonment for two years after finding him guilty of contempt of court. According to the latest messages posted on Ssemakadde’s X handle, he allegedly fled to Rwanda. After posting as […]
Fourteen bodies of South African soldiers who were killed while in battle alongside Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) soldiers and coalition forces in Goma city North Kivu province have been repatriated through Rwanda and Uganda. The soldiers were killed during fierce fighting two weeks ago as they fought to stop the March […]
President Yoweri Museveni has issued an executive order instructing the Ministry of Internal Affairs to stop denying Ugandan passports to rightful citizens. Museveni in the order signed on January 23 said that he had consistently received complaints regarding how people applying for passports are sometimes treated by the concerned authorities. “This mainly relates to how the […]
Rwanda President Paul Kagame has urged the international community to address the problems causing unrest in the eastern DRC, lest they spill over into his country. President Kagame has also questioned the credibility of the election, twice, of DRC’s Felix Tshisekedi. He was speaking during a luncheon event that brought together diplomatic corps in Rwanda […]
Nnalulungi wa Rwanda, Divine Muheto eyakwatibwa olw’okuvuga emmotoka ng’atamidde n’okuvuga nga talina layisinsi kkooti emukalize oluvannyuma lw’okukkiriza emisango gino. Muheto awummuziddwa ku bwa Nnalulungi okumala emyezi esatu n’aweesebwa n’engassi ya nsimbi za Rwanda 190,000 nga mu za Uganda gy’emitwalo 51 n’ensimbi ezigwamu (514,786). Nnalulungi ono amaze ennaku 18 mu kaduukulu ka poliisi naye nga kigambibwa […]
A majority of the world’s population has experienced a decline in press freedom in recent years, according to a UN report. In east Africa, the results are mixed and debatable. In Uganda, both international rankings and local journalists say media freedom has declined. In neighbouring Rwanda, both international press freedom rankings and journalists on the […]