Rwanda

Protesters burn treatment centers, attack healthcare workers to retrieve bodies of Ebola victims

The Ebola outbreak has sparked a wave of misinformation that health officials linked to violent assaults on healthcare workers and attacks on healthcare centers. 

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
A general view of a burnt emergency medical tent set up by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at the General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu in Mongbwalu, on May 23, 2026.
Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani walks near an Iranian missile during an unveiling ceremony in Tehran, Iran, in this picture obtained on February 17, 2024.

Any Iran deal without proxy restrictions is strategic surrender - opinion

A new nuclear deal may calm markets, but it could embolden Iran’s regime and its regional proxies.

|ByDAN PERRY
US first lady Melania Trump presides over a United Nations Security Council meeting, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, March 2, 2026.

Trump, Netanyahu and the irony of Responsibility to Protect in Iran - opinion

Trump and Netanyahu may unintentionally act in line with the UN’s Responsibility to Protect principle.

|ByDAN PERRY
Vendors and customers crowd a market in Uvira on December 9, 2025.

Rebel group M23 takes control of Congo town, in blow to peace talks in Africa

The M23 rebel group consolidated control over the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Uvira on Thursday, endangering peace efforts in the region.

|ByREUTERS

Rwanda mulls embassy move to Jerusalem

Only the United States and Guatemala currently have embassies in Jerusalem, with the remainder of 87 countries with embassies in Israel having located them in Tel Aviv and Herzliya.

NOVEMBER 29, 2020ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel is seen meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the capital city Kigali.

El Al to conduct first flight to Rwanda during Hannukah

The trip will allow visitors to get an "in-depth acquaintance with the destination and will provide an experience that has never been seen before, even for experienced safari travelers."

NOVEMBER 10, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Israeli flag is seen on the first of Israel's El Al Airlines order of 16 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jets, as it lands at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv

Rwandan genocide suspect transferred to detention in The Hague

Kabuga, who was on the run for 22 years until his arrest in France in May, will soon be brought before a judge

OCTOBER 26, 2020ByREUTERS
International Criminal Court, The Hague

Rwandan ex-politician handed life jail term for genocide role

About 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed during the genocide.

MAY 28, 2020ByREUTERS
UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Arusha, Tanzania

UN prosecutor: Remains of Rwandan war crimes suspect found in Congo

The remains of a fugitive major suspect in Rwanda's 1994 genocide have been identified in a grave in the Republic of the Congo, a United Nations war crimes prosecutor said on Friday.

MAY 22, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

Rwanda's most-wanted genocide suspect appears before French court

The court's three judges, who are due to decide whether to transfer Kabuga to the UN tribunal - adjourned the hearing to May 27.

MAY 20, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

'He wouldn't say a word' - How a Rwanda genocide fugitive lived incognito

Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga, whose arrest on Saturday ended 26 years on the run, was a frail, elderly man who said little to neighbors.

MAY 17, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga arrested in France after decades on the run

Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run.

MAY 16, 2020ByREUTERS
Readers look at a newspaper June 12, 2002 in Nairobi carrying the photograph of Rwandan Felicien Kabuga wanted by the United States. The United States published a "wanted" photograph in Kenyan newspapers of the businessman accused of helping finance the 1994 killings in Rwanda.

ICC leader condemns antisemitism, won’t back down from controversial cases

‘A guiding ethos of the world order following WWII – that was coeval with the Holocaust – was engraved in the commitment of ‘never again’

JANUARY 27, 2020ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
International Criminal Court

African migrants to Israel: Detain, deport or ignore their existence?

Stranded in limbo...

JULY 19, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
AFRICAN MIGRANTS are seen in South Tel Aviv last July.