{At Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre, the US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa Thomas Perriello, Ambassador Erica J. Barks-Ruggles, and Officials from Bugesera District together with genocide survivor’s representatives laid wreaths on the mass graves to honour and remember the more than a million lives lost in the Genocide against Tutsi.} The […]

A hundred people gathered Friday afternoon from 13:30 to 16:00 at the Schuman roundabout in front of the European institutions in Brussels, to condemn the decision of the Rwandan authorities to amend the Constitution to allow the Rwandan Patriotic Front to stay on power. IGIHE has learnt from Le Soir that a delegation was received […]

{For the first time the Peace Corp Global Director from Washington, D.C. Carrie Hessler-Radelet, will be in Rwanda to attend the swearing-in ceremony for 27 new volunteers who will be in Rwanda for two years working in the community health sector around the country, as well as 10 rapid response volunteers who will teach English […]

{Lt. Gen Karenzi Karake has returned to Rwanda two months after the UK police arrested him based upon a 2008 European Arrest Warrant sparked off by an indictment issued by a Spanish judge in the same year.} Gen. Karenzi Karake arrived in Kigali on Thursday after the UK court threw out the extradition case brought […]

{Two months after the cancellation of part of his African tour due to health problems, Stromae, the Belgian singer with Rwandan roots announced on social networks back on stage in the month of September starting with the US.} IGIHE has learnt that Stromae has visibly recovered from the illness that struck him during his African […]

{Libya has warned it will launch legal action against Rwanda and three other African countries over the alleged nationalisation of the Libyan assets that followed the eight-month long conflict that brought a brutal end to Muammar Gaddafi’s 40-year rule.} IGIHE has learnt that a deliberation on the fate of the frozen assets in various AU […]

{Throughout this week just ending, this website has reported a series of events chronicling the case of the request for the revision of the Rwandan constitution.} All Rwandans even the International community just knew that the Rwandan Parliament passed a green card to change the constitution, a step that will give President Paul Kagame the […]

{The U.S. Department of State has announced that Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Catherine Russell will be in Rwanda at the end of her travel to Asia and Africa.} The State Department said in a statement released Monday that Catherine Russell will travel to Asia and Africa from July 16 – 27. Ambassador Russell will […]

{Rwanda has been ranked the eighth most efficient government globally in the Global Competitive Report 2014-2015. } The latest report, published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on its website, puts Rwanda ahead of Malaysie, Switzerland and Luxembourg, which are placed eighth, ninth and 10th, respectively. The report ranked the Qatari government as the most […]

{The Rwanda Media Commission (RMC) has sacked its Executive Secretary owing to misconduct and incompetence towards his duties and responsibilities, IGIHE has learnt on Friday.} Mr. Julius Ndayisaba; RMC’s former Executive Secretary; has been dismissed on his responsibilities as the Executive Secretary of the Commission, RMC announces in a statement released on Thursday. The dismissal […]