Rwanda

President Herzog receives credentials of five new ambassadors to Israel day before elections

The list includes Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Bayingana of Rwanda, Christophe Parisot of France, Arad Benko of Austria, Stella Ronner Grubacic of the Netherlands, and Evelyn Korantemaa Ofosu-Amable of Ghana.

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President Isaac Herzog presents the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism to six passengers who acted heroically aboard a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight on September 30, during a ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, October 8, 2026.
WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES’ COURT; Illustrative.

Rwandan man charged in UK with genocide offenses appears in court

Prosecutor Jane Stansfield said Vincent Brown was head of the Department of Family Health within Rwanda's National Office of Population when the genocide began.

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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar sits with Democratic Republic of the Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner during a visit to Israel on September 1, 2026.

Sa'ar, Herzog meet officials from DRC in tie strengthening visit to Israel

Israel and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have had rocky ties since the DRC severed relations following pressure from the Arab League after the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

|ByARIELLA ROITMAN
People pray by a mass grave at Nyanza Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali, Rwanda on April 11, 2024.

Rwandan genocide suspect jailed for life in Netherlands for 1994 war crimes

The defendant, identified only as Eugene N., had fled to the Netherlands in 1998 and later obtained Dutch nationality. Dutch prosecutors opened an investigation into him in 2020.

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'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.

Rwanda launches inaugural direct flight to Tel Aviv

The flight will open up business opportunities for Rwandans as well, artists and business minded people who took the inaugural flight told CNBC.

JUNE 26, 2019ByYVETTE J. DEANE
A Rwandair commercial passenger jet is pictured in Blagnac near Toulouse

Rwanda and Israel open airways to first-ever direct flight

This development follows an aviation agreement signed on Monday between Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz and Rwandan Ambassador Joseph Rutabana.

JUNE 26, 2019ByYVETTE J. DEANE
President of Rwanda Paul Kagame (C) sits next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during their meeting in Jerusalem July 10, 2017.

Everything you need to know about the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Here are some facts about one of the darkest chapters in human history.

APRIL 7, 2019ByREUTERS
A labourer works next to a wall showing names of those buried at a mass grave at the Kigali Genocide Memorial grounds as the country prepares to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in the capital Kigali April 2, 2014

Rwanda's post-genocide guide keeps the memories alive

Uwase, who turns 25 on Friday, was two days old when the bloodshed began.

APRIL 6, 2019ByREUTERS
Relatives assist a distressed victim of the genocide at a mass-grave site in Kigali

Macron appoints researchers to evaluate role of France in Rwandan genocide

While Paris has acknowledged mistakes in its dealings with Rwanda, it has repeatedly dismissed accusations that it trained militias to take part in the massacre.

APRIL 5, 2019ByREUTERS
A labourer works next to a wall showing names of those buried at a mass grave at the Kigali Genocide Memorial grounds as the country prepares to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in the capital Kigali April 2, 2014

Israel opens first embassy in Rwanda

Israel and Rwanda initially established diplomatic ties in 1962, but Rwanda along with African states severed those ties after the 1973 Yom Kippur war.

APRIL 2, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Opening of the Israeli embassy in Rwanda