Incumbent leader Paul Kagame swept to a landslide victory in Rwanda's presidential election, securing a third term in office and extending his 17 years in power, final results showed on Saturday.
Rwanda's Frank Habineza, the only registered opposition leader competing against President Paul Kagame in Friday's elections, pledged on Wednesday to retry political prisoners if...
Frank Habineza is an environmentalist running to become Rwanda's president for the first time after an eight-year struggle to register his party and obtain...
Rwanda's president is already claiming victory in next month's election.
President Paul Kagame told supporters at his first campaign rally on Friday that the results...
French investment bank BNP Paribas has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes related to the mass slaughter in 1994 that claimed more than 800,000 lives.
Reuters reports that three non-government organisations (NGOs) have filed a lawsuit in Paris against BNP Paribas, alleging that it knowingly approved a transfer of $1.3m from the Rwandan central bank to an arms dealer during the genocide.
Rwanda's ruling party has chosen longtime President Paul Kagame as its candidate for the August election.
Kagame has ruled the East African nation since 2000....
Tanzania's government signed a $154 million contract on Saturday with the state-run China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to expand the main port in the...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
