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In elections dubbed “free and fair” by observers from the National Electoral Commission (NEC), close to one hundred women voted representatives to be their voice in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).

Over 5000 households in Kigali located in wetlands and on hilltops will be relocated in the next two years, information from Kigali City Council indicates.

African countries should invest heavily in the roll-out of Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure to reach people at the grass root level as a means of ensuring equitable access to the population, said an ITU official.

Nyagatare Hospital in the Eastern Province has suspended a doctor for allegedly neglecting a 46-year old patient, who died later.

Kigali City Council (KCC) on Friday carried out commemorative activities to remember its former workers who were killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

A Digital Chest X-ray machine, which communicates directly with the central level from anywhere in the country, will be used for the TB Prevalence survey.

The Institute of International Education, in collaboration with the Akilah Institute of Women yesterday launched the African Centres of Excellence for Women’s Leadership, a program supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

South Sudan has withdrawn its police from the disputed Abyei region on its border with Sudan, the United Nations said on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council threatened the African neighbors with sanctions to try and stop an escalating conflict.