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Congolese refugees flee to Rwanda - slideshow - UNHCR Flickr

Mon May 14 05:49:20 +0000 2012

Some of the refugees walked for days before reaching the Goma-Gisenyi border crossing between Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. They came with their belongings, including mattresses, clothing, perhaps a few toys for the children. The images are from the border and from the Nkamira Transit Centre, located 22 kilometres inside Rwanda.

Tags: UNHCR Congo Ntaganda Flickr photography Rwanda Nkamira

Refugees flee new clashes in eastern DR Congo - AFP

Mon May 14 05:46:45 +0000 2012

On Saturday, government forces carried out air strikes against Runyonyi, a town near the Rwandan border which is held by the mutineers, the army said. A representative of a local civil society group told AFP Sunday that "there has been heavy weapon firing this morning in Runyonyi. People are fleeing the hills around Runyonyi and heading for Jomba and Tchengerero." A spokesman for one breakaway group, the March 23 movement (M23), said civilians were also fleeing the Bunagana region, some crossing into Uganda. "Massive population displacement is taking place because of fear of fighting," Lieutenant Colonel Vianney Kazarana said.

Tags: Rwanda Congo Ntaganda refugees Runyoni Kazarana Virunga

Congolese refugees to be relocated to Nyamagabe District - Rwanda Gov.

Mon May 14 05:45:04 +0000 2012

Based on decision made by the Government of Rwanda on Saturday 12 May, incoming Congolese refugees are to be transferred to a new site in Nyamagabe District in the South of Rwanda. This decision was welcomed by UNCHR and other partners who have been collaborating with the Government of Rwanda in the search of feasible and sustainable solutions to the challenge of accommodation in Nkamira Transit Center in Rubavu District, currently receiving all incoming refugees.

Tags: Rwanda Ntaganda Congo refugees Nyamagabe

Slideshow of Congolese refugees fleeing fighting in North Kivu - Huffington Post

Thu May 10 20:03:18 +0000 2012

Congolese inhabitants of the town of Kibumba walk towards Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, on May 8, 2012. Several thousand people have fled Kibumba and the environs, following clashes that began around midnight last night between the Congolese army and elements of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebel group.

Tags: Rwanda Congo photography photojournalism Goma Kibumba NorthKivu Ntaganda

Tunisia: Trabelsi to face player crisis against Rwanda - StarAfrica

Thu May 10 19:56:58 +0000 2012

The friendly confrontation between Tunisia and Rwanda comes up the same day with matchday 17 delayed encounters of the national football championship. This clash puts the coach of the Tunisia national football team, Sami Trabelsi in a critical situation as players of Esperance Sportive Tunis, Etoile Sportive Sahel and Club Africain will be involved in their clubs’ duties. Trabelsi, who has been using players from those clubs in the national team, saw his request for the adjournment of various national tournament delayed matches rejected by the country’s football federation. Billed for May 27, the friendly encounter is the ultimate for Tunisia ahead of their 2014 world cup qualifier coming June.

Tags: Rwanda Tunisia football sport

Almost 50% of Kigali residents don’t know how to use the toilet - The Chronicles

Thu May 10 15:42:41 +0000 2012

Some might say it’s just potty talk, but according to Joseph Theodomily Katabarwa, a community health and development expert and head of environmental health department for the Ministry of Health, 45 per cent of Kigali residents don’t know how to keep their toilets clean

Tags: Kigali hygiene Rwanda health healthcare toilet

Nyiraba Herekeza registers as a refugee in Rwanda - Reuters

Thu May 10 15:24:54 +0000 2012

Nyiriaba Herekeza, 65, from the Democratic Republic of Congo awaits registration as a refugee at Gisenyi on the Rwanda border with Congo, May 9, 2012. Herekeza hopes to get to a hospital soon, as ten days ago she was shot in the head as she fled fighting between Congolese government troops and rebels near her home in Gicanga, North Kivu. Clashes erupted after Congolese President Joseph Kabila announced last month he would try to arrest the renegade General Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crime in northeastern Congo's ethnic conflict.

Tags: Herekeza Rwanda refugees Congo Ntaganda

Thousands flee as Congo battles renegade general - Reuters

Thu May 10 13:57:06 +0000 2012

Nyiraba Herekeza hopes to get to a hospital soon. Ten days ago she was shot in the head as she fled fighting between Congolese government troops and rebels near her home in Gicanga, North Kivu. The bullet is still lodged inside her right eye socket. "I came from my house and ran to the forest. I was running away, fleeing the war, then the bullet came and hit me," an exhausted-looking Herekeza, 65, told Reuters as she sat with her two grandchildren minutes after crossing the border with Rwanda. "I don't know which soldiers (shot me)."

Tags: Rwanda Ntaganda Nkamira Congo refugees Gisenyi Herekeza

Pedal power lights up rural Rwanda - video - Reuters

Thu May 10 13:44:32 +0000 2012

Pedalling to bring power to his village in Rwanda. Francois Nsegimana is working for lightmaker, Nuru Energy. Customers pay Francois to charge up the batteries for their LED lights on his pedal generator.

Tags: Rwanda Nuru electricity Kayonza renewableenergy renewables

DR Congo arms cache found on "Terminator" Ntaganda's farm - BBC

Thu May 10 10:01:19 +0000 2012

A massive arms cache has been uncovered in eastern Democratic Republic Congo on the farm of renegade soldier Bosco Ntaganda, the army has told the BBC. Other heavy weapons were found in two other locations in North Kivu, the scene of recent fighting against army mutineers, Col Innocent Gahizi said. He agreed with analysts that a move by some mutineers to appoint a new leader was a ploy to protect Gen Ntaganda.

Tags: Rwanda Congo Ntaganda Gahizi BBC ICC

Congolese flee violence into neighboring Rwanda - AP

Wed May 09 20:53:06 +0000 2012

When gunfire broke out in her home area in eastern Congo, Annie Kabeja joined a wave of thousands fleeing the area and walked for two days with her two children toward neighboring Rwanda. "We heard gunshots and blasts. We had no option but to flee," the 34-year-old Kabeja said after arriving in Rwanda. "We couldn't sleep. Bullets were flying all over the place."

Tags: Rwanda Congo Ntaganda Nkamira refugees M23

Refugees from DR Congo board a UNHCR truck in Rwanda - Flickr

Wed May 09 20:28:49 +0000 2012

Almost 7,000 refugees from DR Congo have arrived in Rwanda, escaping the fighting in North Kivu over the border.

Tags: Rwanda Congo Ntaganda border GRD refugees flickr photography

DR Congo army in gunfight with mutineers, says captain - AFP

Tue May 08 19:53:24 +0000 2012

Congolese army deserters led by ex-general Bosco Ntaganda were in a gunfight with soldiers in the eastern DR Congo town of Kimbumba overnight, an army captain said Tuesday. "We started fighting around midnight (2200 GMT Monday)," he told AFP. "General Bosco Ntaganda was in the ranks" of the mutineers, who are former members of rebel group the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP). "After a heavy gun battle lasting four hours in Kibumba, we were backed by heavy weapons fire," said the captain, himself a former member of the CNDP who integrated into the army under a 2009 peace deal with Kinshasa.

Tags: Rwanda Congo Ntaganda AFP CNDP Kimbumba

DR Congo warlord Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda "replaced" - BBC

Tue May 08 15:30:23 +0000 2012

Army mutineers in eastern Democratic Republic Congo loyal to warlord Bosco Ntaganda, known as "The Terminator", have replaced him as their leader. A statement said the fighters had formed an armed group called M23 to be headed by Col Sultani Makenga, who also recently defected from the army. Analysts say the move could be a way of protecting Gen Ntaganda, who is wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes.

Tags: Rwanda Congo Ntaganda BBC ICC M23 Goma CNDP

Photo: A Congolese refugee at the Nkamira transit camp - AP

Tue May 08 12:59:38 +0000 2012

Nkamira, Rwanda: A Congolese refugee at the Nkamira transit camo. Photograph by Siegfried Modola/AP

Tags: Rwanda Congo Nkamira refugees UNHCR AP photography photojournalism

Families in Nkamira Transit camp scattered by DR Congo fighting - AFP

Tue May 08 12:42:21 +0000 2012

“We were together in the forest when the fighting forced us to flee,” Mukakarimba said in tears, cradling her little boy to protect him from the lashing rain in this transit camp close to the Congolese border. She was separated from her husband and a second child in the chaos sparked by the fighting between soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo's army and mutineers - who were until recently rebel soldiers. “I was at home with my family when we heard explosions and people shooting, and everybody ran away,” said Rema Mukankusi, who made it across the border into Rwanda along with two of her grown children. Her husband and four other children scattered in different directions.

Tags: Rwanda Congo Nkamira refugees UNHCR AFP

How Rwanda judged its genocide - Africa Research Institute

Tue May 08 09:15:58 +0000 2012

Since 2001, the gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda’s justice and reconciliation process. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, but lawyers are banned from any official involvement. Human rights organisations fiercely opposed the use of gacaca for trying genocide cases, on the grounds that it fell short of international legal standards of fairness. Much criticism reflects legal rigidity towards the unprecedented challenges confronting post-genocide Rwanda – and a limited understanding of the aims of the community courts. Gacaca was inevitably imperfect, but also highly ambitious and innovative. While the full impact of the process will not be apparent for many years, gacaca has delivered benefits to Rwandans in the spheres of justice, truth and democratic participation. Other societies confronting the aftermath of mass conflict could learn much from Rwanda’s approach to local justice.

Tags: Rwanda Genocide Clark gacaca research

DR Congo refugees at Nkamira Transit Camp - Anouck's Displaced World Blog

Tue May 08 08:48:10 +0000 2012

Nkamira Transit Centre is temporary shelter for all those who fled their villages and left everything behind. The centre is located a mere 22kms from the border that separates refugees from their home country. But accommodation at the centre is poor - 100s of refugees cram together in the 30 rub halls scattered on the patches of grass. All together, a maximum of 5,000 individuals can be received at Nkamira, but the steady influx of refugees has already outpaced our capacity to host them. Urgent decongestion is needed.

Tags: UNHCR photography Bronee Nkamira blog Rwanda

UNCTAD to conduct FDI study for Rwanda - UNCTAD

Tue May 08 07:42:41 +0000 2012

Noting that the Government of Rwanda has adopted its Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) for the 2008-2012 period to guide Rwanda's medium-term development ambitions, and that Rwanda has been climbing up in the World Bank's Doing Business Index, the Ambassador also pointed to a gap between registered investment and actual investment. In view of the fact that investment is important in terms of jobs, technology and tax revenues, the Government of Rwanda, in line with its Private Sector Development Cluster under the EDPRS, is of the view that an in-depth FDI study is a matter of priority and urgency.

Tags: FDI investment economy UNCTAD Rwanda

Thousands of Congolese enter Rwanda to flee fighting - AFP

Mon May 07 21:29:22 +0000 2012

“One individual is not worth the lives of so many Congolese," said Mushikiwabo. "That’s really a very important point. So as much as it’s sexy and there’s a campaign and all of that, let’s think about the ordinary Congolese citizens. They deserve peace and they deserve to be cared for like anybody else.”

Tags: UNHCR MIDIMAR Rwanda Nkamira refugees Kahongya Bronee Mushikiwabo