Sources: Reuters
Hundreds of Rwandan refugees from the 1994 genocide return to Rwanda under the auspices of a United Nations program. The refugees, mostly Hutu civilians, were residing in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2025-05-17
A grenade attack at an M23 rally in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, celebrating their recent victory over government forces in the city, kills at least eleven people and wounds 65 others. 2025-02-27
Congolese Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner calls on Western sporting firms such as the National Basketball Association, Formula One, and Arsenal F.C. to cut sponsorship deals with Rwanda amid the conflict in Kivu. 2025-02-15
Four people are killed and twenty are injured in a grenade attack by a former TPLF combatant in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. 2023-08-26
The United States deports Beatrice Munyenyezi to Rwanda after she served her jail term for lying on her U.S. citizenship naturalization process. Upon arrival in Rwanda, Munyenyezi was arrested on charges ranging from murder to complicity in rape during the course of the 1994 genocide. She did not comment during her arrest to local press but had previously denied the accusations while in the United States. 2021-04-17
Rwanda receives its first shipment of 240,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-3
Rwandan humanitarian and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Paul Rusesabagina is shown off in handcuffs at the Rwanda Investigation Bureau headquarters in Kigali. The Bureau says he is detained on charges of terrorism, but does not say where or when he was arrested. 2020-08-31
A Rwandan court reschedules the trial date of the United Democratic Forces opposition party leader, Victoire Ingabire, for another 30 days for prosecutors to complete building their case against her. 2010-11-26
One person is killed and 28 injured in two grenade attacks in the Rwandan capital Kigali. 2010-05-16
Several grenade attacks occur at the homes of former Thai Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa and in Chiang Mai. 2010-04-26