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Rwanda confirms early talks to host deported US migrants
Rwanda has confirmed that discussions were “underway” with the United States regarding a potential agreement to host deported migrants.
 
Massad Boulos, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, addresses the media at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuhi Irakiza)
US official reaffirms Washington’s commitment to peace in East Africa during Rwanda visit
A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump has reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to peace and stability in East Africa during a visit to Rwanda and urged for a resolution to the insurgency in neighboring Congo.
 
Delegates attend the first-ever Global AI Summit for Africa where more than 1,000 policymakers, business leaders, and interest groups have gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuhi Irakiza)
Study says more women than men in Africa will likely lose outsourcing tasks to AI
A new report says that more women than men working in Africa’s outsourcing sector will likely see their tasks in the workplace replaced by automation and artificial intelligence by 2030.
 
M23 rebels escort Romanian mercenaries to the border crossing into Rwanda in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.(AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Congolese civilians caught in a growing rebellion face a terrible choice
Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s interior and seek the protection of an army in disarray, or cross into nearby Rwanda, which is accused of backing the rebels.
 
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame gestures as he gives a press conference after his final election campaign rally at Kigali Convention Centre in Kigali, Rwanda Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
Rwanda’s Paul Kagame urges Congo to negotiate with M23 rebels after they seize strategic towns
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has urged Congolese authorities to negotiate with a violent rebel group that has seized key towns in eastern Congo in recent days, widening its control over the region which borders Rwanda.
 
In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Rwanda and WHO declare end of Marburg outbreak after no new cases reported
The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government have declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks.
 
Rwanda says no community transmission of Marburg virus, with zero new infections in recent days
Rwanda’s health minister said Sunday that an outbreak of the Marburg virus is not spreading in the country, citing the absence of new infections or deaths in the past six days.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Rwanda will deploy Marburg vaccine under trial as death toll rises to 12
Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Rwanda’s Marburg fever deaths rise to 11 as its source is being investigated
Health authorities say Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda. The East African country is searching for the source of an outbreak first traced among patients in health facilities.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak
Rwanda says that eight people have died so far from the highly contagious Marburg virus. The announcement comes just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.
 
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, right, has ink applied on his finger after casting his vote in a presidential election, in Kigali, Monday, July. 15, 2024. Rwandans are voting Monday in a presidential election that is expected to extend the long rule of Kagame, who has held power since 1994. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Provisional election results show Rwanda’s Kagame cruising to victory, an outcome that was expected
President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Rwanda’s presidential election, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country’s long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power.
 
FILE - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame wave as he leaves an election campaign rally on the hills overlooking Kigali, Rwanda, on Aug. 2, 2017. Rwandans are voting Monday in an election that will almost certainly extend the long rule of Kagame, who is running virtually unopposed after three decades in power in the eastern African nation. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
Paul Kagame appears set to extend his long presidency of Rwanda in an election Monday
Rwandans vote Monday in an election that will almost certainly extend the long rule of President Paul Kagame. The leader is running virtually unopposed after three decades in power in the eastern African nation.
 
FILE - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech, following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Saturday, July 6, 2024. Rwanda's government said late Monday, July 8, it is aware of the United Kingdom's intention to terminate its plan to deport asylum-seekers to the East African country. Starmer said in his first news conference Saturday that the Rwanda deportation plan “was dead and buried before it started.” (Claudia Greco, Pool Photo via AP, File)
Rwanda says it is aware of the UK’s intention to terminate contentious deportation scheme
Rwanda’s government says it is aware of the United Kingdom’s intention to terminate its plan to deport asylum-seekers to the East African country.
 
1 killed in stampede as Rwanda’s Kagame begins campaign for reelection
Authorities in Rwanda say one person was killed in a stampede at a reelection rally for President Paul Kagame in a remote western area of the country.
 
FILE - A security guard stands in the reception area of the Hope Hostel, which is one of the locations expected to house some of the asylum-seekers due to be sent from Britain to Rwanda, in the capital Kigali, Rwanda on June 10, 2022. Rwanda government's deputy spokesperson Alain Mukuralinda said Tuesday, April 23, 2024, it's ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some to the East African country. (AP Photo, File)
A man who failed to get asylum in the UK is said to have voluntarily flown to Rwanda
A Rwandan official says an unsuccessful asylum-seeker in the U.K. has arrived in Rwanda. The deputy government spokesperson said the man, whose nationality was not disclosed, did not arrive under a controversial deal to deport to Rwanda migrants who enter the U.K. illegally.
 
FILE - The exterior of the Hope Hostel, which is one of the locations expected to house some of the asylum-seekers due to be sent from Britain to Rwanda, is seen in the capital Kigali, Rwanda on June 10, 2022. Rwanda government's deputy spokesperson Alain Mukuralinda said Tuesday, April 23, 2024, it's ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some to the East African country. (AP Photo, File)
Rwanda’s Hope Hostel once housed young genocide survivors. Now it’s ready for migrants from Britain
Rwanda says it’s ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some of them to the East African country.
 
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame gestures as he gives a press conference at Kigali Convention Centre in Kigali, Rwanda, Monday, April 8, 2024. Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering this small east African country that continues to grapple with the horrific legacy of the massacres. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Rwanda’s leader is concerned over perceived US ambiguity about victims of the 1994 genocide
Rwandan President Paul Kagame says he’s concerned by what he saw as a U.S. failure to characterize the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country’s minority Tutsis.
 
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, background left and his wife, first lady Jeannette Kagame prepare to lay a wreath, during a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, held at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, in Kigali, Rwanda, Sunday, April 7, 2024. Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering this small east African country that continues to grapple with the horrific legacy of the massacres. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Kagame blames the world’s inaction as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide with lingering scars
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwanda commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists.
 
Genocide survivor Jeanette Nyirabashyitsi, 45, left a Tutsi, greets Frederick Kazigwemo, a Hutu who was jailed for nine years for genocide-related crimes in the reconciliation village of Mbyo, in Nyamata, Rwanda Friday, April 5, 2024. Thirty years after the genocide, the country has fourteen "reconciliation villages" where convicted perpetrators who have been released from prison after publicly apologizing for their crimes live side by side with genocide survivors. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
In a Rwandan reconciliation village, collaborative efforts among women give hope for unity
In a community of genocide perpetrators and survivors outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, more than half of 382 residents are women.
 
FILE - Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali on April 13, 1994. People are patients of this hospital. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)
Though Rwanda has come a long way since the 1994 genocide, scars of the past still haunt the nation
Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide against its minority Tutsi as new mass graves are still being discovered across the country in a grim reminder of the scale of the killings.
 
Children practise fencing game, on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, Tuesday, April 4, 2024. The country will commemorate on April 7, 2024 the 30th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbours, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
New mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide
New mass graves are still being found in Rwanda, 30 years after the country’s genocide in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi were killed by extremist Hutu in massacres that lasted over 100 days.
 
Remains of victims are retrieved from a site, in Huye District, southern Rwanda Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. A Rwandan official says the remains of 119 people believed to be victims of genocide have been discovered in the country’s south, as authorities continue to find mass graves nearly three decades after the killings. In April, Rwanda will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed by Hutu extremists. (AP Photo)
Mass graves are still being found, almost 30 years after Rwanda’s genocide, official says
A Rwandan official says the remains of 119 people believed to be victims of genocide have been discovered in the country’s south as authorities continue to find mass graves nearly three decades after the killings.
 
FILE - Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye gestures to the crowd after his inauguration in Gitega, Burundi on June 18, 2020. Rwandan authorities accused Burundi's leader of making “incendiary allegations aimed at inciting division among Rwandans,” raising tensions that persist after Burundi closed all border crossings with Rwanda earlier this month. (AP Photo/Berthier Mugiraneza, File)
Against a backdrop of rebel attacks and border closures, Rwanda and Burundi trade accusations
Rwandan authorities accused Burundi’s leader of making “incendiary allegations aimed at inciting division among Rwandans,” raising tensions that persist after Burundi closed all border crossings with Rwanda earlier this month.
 
Rwanda says it killed a Congolese soldier who crossed the border, heightening tensions
Rwanda’s military says it has killed a Congolese soldier who crossed the border and allegedly fired at Rwandan army patrols. It’s the latest incident in cross-border tensions between the neighbors.
 
FILE — Hutu refugees women and children wait to be registered at Kigali airport Rwanda, after they arrived on the UN plane from Kisangai, Zaire Sunday, May 4, 1997. Funding cuts to refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps.(AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File)
Refugee children’s education in Rwanda under threat because of reduced UN funding
Cuts to U.N. funding for refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps.
 
Denis Kazungu, in Kicukiro Primary Court in Kigali, Rwanda, Thursday, Sept.21, 2023. A suspected serial killer in Rwanda on Thursday pleaded guilty at a court on Thursday, saying he killed 14 people. Most of the victims were women. Denis Kazungu, 34, admitted guilt to charges that included murder, rape and robbery. He appeared at the Kicukiro Court in the capital, Kigali, and didn't appear to show any emotion during the hearing.(AP Photo/Rashid Bugiranfura)
A serial killer pleads guilty in Rwanda to killing 14 people
A serial killer in Rwanda has pleaded guilty at a court saying he killed 14 people. Most of the victims were women. Denis Kazungu admitted guilt to charges that included murder, rape and robbery.
 
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Rwanda’s president says he’ll run for a fourth term and doesn’t care what the West thinks about it
Rwanda’s president says he will run for a fourth term next year and that “what the West thinks is not my problem,” after the United States and others criticized the earlier lifting of term limits to extend his rule.
 
Rwanda will host a company’s 1st small-scale nuclear reactor testing carbon-free energy approach
Rwanda’s atomic energy board says it has signed a deal with a Canadian-German company to build its first small-scale nuclear reactor to test what the company claims is a new approach for nuclear fission.
 
Suspect serial killer arrested in Rwanda after over 10 bodies found in a pit at his home
Police in Rwanda say a suspected serial killer has been arrested after the discovery of the bodies of more than 10 people in a pit dug in his compound. Neighbors told The Associated Press on Thursday that the suspect spoke very little.
 
FILE - Rwandan refugee children plead with Zairean soldiers to allow them across a bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, where their mothers had crossed moments earlier before the soldiers closed the border, Aug. 20, 1994. Appeals judges on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 threw out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a procedure to hear evidence against an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect who was declared unfit to face trial. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, file)
Rwanda genocide survivors criticize UN court’s call to permanently halt elderly suspect’s trial
Survivors of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide have criticized a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an alleged financer and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect’s ill health.
 
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