Rwanda

Rebel group M23 takes control of Congo town, in blow to peace talks in Africa

The M23 rebel group consolidated control over the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Uvira on Thursday, endangering peace efforts in the region.

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Vendors and customers crowd a market in Uvira on December 9, 2025.
(From L-R) US President Donald Trump, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi hold a signed document during a signing ceremony at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, December 4, 2025.

Congo, Rwanda leaders affirm commitment to Trump-backed peace deal

Washington staged a Congo-Rwanda peace signing, but continuing M23 clashes and stalled commitments raised doubts about its impact.

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Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi's high representative Sumbu Sita Mambu and head of the M23 rebel group delegation Benjamin Mbonimpa sign a framework agreement for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in eastern Congo, during a ceremony in Doha, Qatar, November 15, 2025.

Congo, M23 rebels agree to framework pact backed by US and Qatar

It was the latest document signed in recent months as part of efforts, backed by the US and Qatar, to end decades of fighting in Congo, which has been an enduring threat to regional stability.

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Relatives assist a distressed victim of the genocide at a mass-grave site in Kigali

Police arrest Rwandan genocide leader on Long Island for immigration fraud

Throughout his applications for a green card and citizenship, he is accused of lying to immigration authorities by denying any involvement in the genocide, the government explained. 

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Rwandan ex-politician handed life jail term for genocide role

About 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed during the genocide.

MAY 28, 2020ByREUTERS
UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Arusha, Tanzania

UN prosecutor: Remains of Rwandan war crimes suspect found in Congo

The remains of a fugitive major suspect in Rwanda's 1994 genocide have been identified in a grave in the Republic of the Congo, a United Nations war crimes prosecutor said on Friday.

MAY 22, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

Rwanda's most-wanted genocide suspect appears before French court

The court's three judges, who are due to decide whether to transfer Kabuga to the UN tribunal - adjourned the hearing to May 27.

MAY 20, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

'He wouldn't say a word' - How a Rwanda genocide fugitive lived incognito

Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga, whose arrest on Saturday ended 26 years on the run, was a frail, elderly man who said little to neighbors.

MAY 17, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga arrested in France after decades on the run

Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run.

MAY 16, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

ICC leader condemns antisemitism, won’t back down from controversial cases

‘A guiding ethos of the world order following WWII – that was coeval with the Holocaust – was engraved in the commitment of ‘never again’

JANUARY 27, 2020ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
International Criminal Court

African migrants to Israel: Detain, deport or ignore their existence?

Stranded in limbo...

JULY 19, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
AFRICAN MIGRANTS are seen in South Tel Aviv last July.

Rwanda launches inaugural direct flight to Tel Aviv

The flight will open up business opportunities for Rwandans as well, artists and business minded people who took the inaugural flight told CNBC.

JUNE 26, 2019ByYVETTE J. DEANE
A Rwandair commercial passenger jet is pictured in Blagnac near Toulouse

Rwanda and Israel open airways to first-ever direct flight

This development follows an aviation agreement signed on Monday between Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz and Rwandan Ambassador Joseph Rutabana.

JUNE 26, 2019ByYVETTE J. DEANE
President of Rwanda Paul Kagame (C) sits next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during their meeting in Jerusalem July 10, 2017.

Everything you need to know about the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Here are some facts about one of the darkest chapters in human history.

APRIL 7, 2019ByREUTERS
A labourer works next to a wall showing names of those buried at a mass grave at the Kigali Genocide Memorial grounds as the country prepares to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in the capital Kigali April 2, 2014