Standard Bank Group has won four Deal Of The Year titles in recognition of its capabilities and achievements in implementing project finance deals across Africa over the past year. Project Finance magazine’s 2011 Deal of the Year Awards recognise the best European and African deals. Standard Bank Group walked away with the Africa Oil & [...]

Project Shares On-Demand Educational Information with Pyrethrum Farmers in Developing World RACINE, Wis., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — SC Johnson has distributed 225 MP3-enabled Lifeplayer radios to remote farm communities in northern Rwanda. SC Johnson is the first to use this new technology in an educational project to support pyrethrum (py) farmers. Initially, the project [...]

  21 December 2011 – Two key organizers of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 were today sentenced to life in prison by the United Nations tribunal dealing with war crimes in the country which resulted in the deaths of some 800,000 people in just 100 days. Édouard Karemera and Matthieu Ngirumpatse, both senior members of [...]

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24 June 2011 – The first woman ever charged with genocide by an international court was today convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison by the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the mass killings in Rwanda in 1994. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, 65, a former Rwandan government minister [...]

KIGALI – Adding strength to the existing partnership to fight poverty, the Government of Rwanda and the World Bank signed an agreement that further supports government’s poverty reduction strategy of targeting job growth and governance. “The GoR very much appreciate World Bank’s continuous financial and technical support that has helped the Government to make great [...]

WASHINGTON, February 24, 2011—The World Bank Board of Executive Directors of the International Development Association (IDA) approved financing to the Government of Rwanda in the amount of US$104.4 million equivalent to support the implementation of key reforms outlined in its Economic Development Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS). Given Rwanda’s status as a blend country, US$70 million [...]

(CNN) — An exiled Rwandan rebel leader is being transferred to the International Criminal Court to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. Callixte Mbarushimana was arrested in Paris in October under an ICC warrant involving allegations of mass rape and other crimes committed in the Democratic [...]

Hosts Rwanda are through to the final of the African under-17 championship after beating Ivory Coast 1-0 on Wednesday. The Baby Wasps will face Burkina Faso on Saturday after Justin Mico’s 72nd-minute goal delighted a packed Amahoro Stadium in the capital Kigali. The Burkinabe booked their place when beating Congo in Tuesday’s semi-final. Rwanda and [...]