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Plans are underway to increase the proportion of women in the national police force to 30 per cent as the constitution stipulates, the Minister of Internal Security, Musa Fazil Harelimana, announced yesterday.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), yesterday, sentenced former Rwanda Minister of Youth and Cooperative Movements, Callixte Nzabonimana, to life for his role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has said Rwanda is aware of a new fundraising effort by Human Rights Watch to ‘release another batch of recycled rumours designed to implicate Rwanda’.

The International Criminal Court (ICC), yesterday, dismissed the
prosecutor's application for an arrest warrant against Sylvestre Mudacumura,

The EAC Partner States’ heads of National Focal Points (NFPs) on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALWs) this week held a three-day meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, to evaluate the impact of a six-year project which winds up in December this year.

Rwanda Organisation of Professional Consultants (ROPC), a consultants’ umbrella body, says there is an ongoing assessment to net quack consultancy firms.

AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, yesterday, cautioned African governments to prepare themselves for any eventuality as the Eurozone crisis deepens and takes time to resolve.

MPs are concerned over the plight of orphans, street children as well as other people with special needs.