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At least 15 people were killed and thousands displaced as the M23 rebel group on Wednesday (6 March) seized a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from government forces amid escalating violence in the country’s conflict-hit region. As the tutsi-led ‘March 23 Movement’ (M23) rebels took over the town of Nyanzale in eastern […]
Gabon’s leader of the transition Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has instructed the Foreign ministry to launch an embassy in Rwanda as soon as possible, the office of the Gabonese leader announced in a statement following a meeting with Gabonese living in the central African country on Monday October 16. Nguema visited on October 16 […]
Casablanca Finance City (CFC) has maintained its position as the leading African financial center in the half-yearly rankings of the 34th edition of the Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) that has also included Mauritius, Kigali, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cape Town, and Lagos on the list. Within the North Africa and Middle East region, the leading Moroccan […]
Rwanda is the house of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) after the Eastern African country signed Saturday an agreement with the African Union (AU). Minata Samate Cessouma, the AU’s Commissioner for health, humanitarian affairs and social development, and Sabin Nsanzimana, Rwanda’s Health minister penned the deal in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. “AMA will play […]
RwandAir has partnered with Qatar Airways to launch a major new African cargo hub — Kigali Cargo Hub — to help Rwanda’s flag-carrier develop its capital, Kigali, into a regional cargo powerhouse. The new Kigali Cargo Hub is part of a long-term strategic plan for the cargo division of RwandAir, which has seen cargo carried […]
The escalating violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 700 lives at the hands of militia fighters since December last year, the United Nations said Monday (27 March). This comes as the CODECO insurgents, a notorious militia operating in the region, a day earlier executed at least […]
A surge of refugees fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is tearing apart families and stretching aid resources, according to Uganda’s government and the United Nations Refugee Agency. The UNHCR says officials were prepared to help some 68,000 Congolese refugees expected in Uganda, but now 150,000 are predicted to arrive by year’s end. […]
A United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague opens a trial with a frail 87-year-old Rwandan accused of encouraging and bankrolling the country’s 1994 genocide on Thursday (29 September), nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre left 800,000 dead. Félicien Kabuga is one of the last fugitives charged over the genocide […]
The second edition of African Business Connect brought together in Kigali 400 companies from Morocco and Rwanda to prospect business and investment opportunities. During the event, co-organized by BMCE bank in partnership with Morocco’s export promotion agency (Maroc export), special emphasis was placed on the sectors of energy, finance, transport and logistics, information and technology, […]
The visit King Mohammed VI was planning to pay to Zambia this December has been postponed to early 2017, announced the Zambian Foreign Department in a release. King Mohammed VI was scheduled to visit the Central African country on December 17 following his state visit to Nigeria. The reasons for the postponement have not been […]