London, August 15, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Government of Rwanda is using drones in stepped-up efforts to eliminate malaria. The drones fly over areas with high concentrations of mosquitoes and spray them with insecticide. According to Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, the Director-General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), the pilot phase will begin in Gasabo District before being rolled ...

London, August 1, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda has closed part of its border with DR Congo, where an Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people in the past year. At least two people have died from the virus in the past month in the crowded Congolese border city of Goma. It is the worst Ebola outbreak ...

London, May 5, 2019 (AltAfrica)-In a ceremony in Kigali on Saturday, the remains of 84,437 people murdered in the Rwandan Genocide were laid to rest at the Nyanza Genocide Memorial. The burial came a month after the country commemorated the 25th anniversary of the massacre. The newly found victims were among more than 800,000 people, mostly ...

London, April 27, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Qatar is expected to become a major investor in Rwanda’s Bugesera Airport after both countries signed an agreement to bolster aviation investments and co-operation. The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was in Kigali this past week on a three-day tour where he held talks with President Paul ...

London, April 25, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Rwanda is considering setting up a Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology (CNST) within the next five years, an official from the Ministry of Infrastructure has revealed to The New Times. Robert Nyamvumba, the Energy Division Manager at the ministry, said talks are underway with Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM), ...

London, April 15, 2019 (AltAfrica)-President Paul Kagame has pointed to reintegrating society and uniting the population after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi as one of Rwanda’s most important step towards progress. Kagame was speaking at a Commemoration service of the Genocide against the Tutsi at the Saddleback Church in California, U.S, along with his ...

London, April 14, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Jean Bizimana, Gadi Habumugisha and Mussa Uwitonze, are Rwandan orphans who lost their parents during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. As survivors living in an orphanage, they were introduced to photography at the age of eight and nine, when Through the Eyes of Children, a nonprofit photo project started in ...

London, April 10, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Police in United Kingdom, Scotland Yard police are investigating five men in the UK suspected of involvement in the Rwandan genocide Cops believe the men orchestrated killings during the 1990s atrocity that saw more than 800,000 people die Scotland Yard launched a probe after officers from its War Crime Unit visited ...

London, April 4, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has apologised for the kidnapping of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during the colonial rule of Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda. The “métis” children born to Belgian settlers and local women were forcibly taken to Belgium and fostered by Catholic orders and other institutions. ...

London, April 3, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The United Kingdom has pledged its support to Rwanda’s vision of preventing Genocide from happening anywhere in the world. The pledge was made Wednesday by Jane Edmondson, the Head of Department for International Development (DFID) for East and Central Africa during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial in Gisozi. “The UK ...