Rwanda moves to limit family size
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Rwanda's government plans to limit families to a maximum of three children to curb population growth.
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Rising violence along Chad's border with Sudan is forcing the United Nations to reduce staff in six camps to a bare minimum and cut back on programs for more than 100,000 Darfur refugees already living in precarious conditions, the global body's refugee agency said Tuesday.
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The government is considering a reduction in the current number of  district councils from 26 to seven.
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Rwanda warns it will intervene to prevent genocide, as more than 150 Tutsi  refugees are buried in Burundi.
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Some 20,000 Congolese in refugee camps in Burundi will be relocated deep into the interior of their host country to distance them from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
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WASHINGTON -- Largely because of the AIDS crisis, nearly one-quarter of all children in Zimbabwe are orphans, a figure that approaches historic levels set in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994, according to a new national survey.
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MUHANGA, Rwanda  - For a decade, Beata Uwitije never slept in her own bed at home. It was always a police cell, an alleyway, a bar or one of her client's homes.
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The west African nation of Burkina Faso has succeeded in nearly halving the prevalence of female genital mutilation in the ten years since it was banned, a government minister said Wednesday.
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Police said they had arrested two  Rwandans living in exile in France who are wanted by an  international court trying suspects in Rwanda&#39;s 1994 genocide.
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AFRICA/RWANDA - Dimissioni del Vescovo di Kibungo e nomina del successore CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI, in data 28 agosto 2007, ha accettato la rinuncia al governo pastorale della Diocesi di Kibungo (Rwanda), presentata da Sua Ecc. Mons. FrÃ©dÃ©ric Rubwejanga, in conformitÃ  al canone 401 ...
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Rwanda's government orders another wave of releases for thousands more prisoners held for the 1994 genocide.
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South Africa announced Sunday that it will temporarily stop exporting power to its neighbors.
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The Congolese say more than 6,000 Rwandans have crossed the border and are attacking and burning villages. From the eastern town of Beni, Congolese regional cooperation minister Mbusa Nyamwisi said villages were being targeted nearby.
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SHIRONGI, Rwanda  - Rwanda launched the biggest  phase yet of a scheme to try up to a million people suspected  of involvement in its 1994 genocide, opening hearings Monday at  traditional village courts around the country.
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Women in the developing world are waiting to have a family and giving birth to fewer children, a UN report says.
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Tiny Rwanda and Burundi have threatened action against the central African giant, Democratic Republic of Congo, after the massacre of Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi, which has pushed Africa's volatile Great Lakes region into a new ethnic crisis.
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Zimbabwe's government is tightening restrictions on rights groups operating in the country, reports say.