Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Faustine Kapama ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – Rwanda’s former minister of family and women affairs and the only woman to be indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and rape, among other crimes. [...]
RWANDA: Stronger Support for Children Affected by HIV
November 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aimable Twahirwa KIGALI, Nov 8, 2010 (IPS) – At Kigali’s Kibagabaga Hospital, 30 young people aged between 12 and 18 years old wait in a crowded holding room, waiting for their turn to see the doctor in charge of prescribing antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). They are among 220,000 [...]
Outcry as Rwandan Govt Shifts Money to Primary Education
October 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aimable Twahirwa KIGALI, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – In an attempt to meet the development goal of universal access to primary education by 2015, Rwanda’s government has decided to reallocate a large part of its tertiary education budget to the primary education sector. As a result, thousands [...]
Hope for Expanded Protection Against TB
October 8, 2010 By
Aimable Twahirwa interviews ANTHONY HAWKRIDGE, tuberculosis researcher KIGALI, Oct 8, 2010 (IPS) – Despite the availability of a vaccine, 1.3 million people worldwide died from tuberculosis (TB) in 2008, according to the World Health Organisation. Most of them lived in Africa and Southeast Asia. Administered to infants throughout the developing world and in certain countries [...]
RWANDA: Improving the Lives of Small-Scale Farmers
August 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aimable Twahirwa KIGALI, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) – Joelle Nsamira Kajuga, a female agricultural researcher has a ready answer to describe which modified crop will produce a higher yield, which will be resistant to bacteria, and which will ensure food security and generate a higher turnover for [...]
POLITICS-RWANDA: "Climate of Repression" as Voting Concludes
August 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zack Baddorf KIGALI, Aug 9, 2010 (IPS) – As voting concluded in Rwanda’s presidential elections, with incumbent President Paul Kagame expected to win by a landslide, fears remain that not all citizens will accept the results amidst claims the elections were neither free nor fair. Critics claim [...]
RWANDA: Women Win by Formalising Businesses
June 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Aimable Twahirwa KIGALI, Jun 8 (IPS) – The vast majority of businesses in Rwanda – like elsewhere in Africa – are informal. Government expects that a drive to register an estimated 900,000 informal enterprises will both strengthen these businesses and improve tax revenues. Thirty-two year old Françoise Muhorakeye [...]
Rwanda Global Host of World Environment Day
May 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jerome Mwanda IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – The East African country Rwanda will be the global host of the World Environment Day (WED) on June 5, which has ‘Many Species. One Planet. One Future.’ as the central theme focussing on globe’s wealth of species and ecosystems in [...]
POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
March 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stanley Kwenda KIGALI, Mar 17 (IPS) – On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. [...]
FILM-RWANDA: Genocidaires Face Off With Their Victims
June 4, 2009 By
Gllobal Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Matthew Berger NEW YORK, Jun 4 (IPS) – In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbours, friends, and family members across Rwanda. Nine years later the killers came home from prison to live side by side again with their victims. The complexities of this [...]
