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Rwanda said on Tuesday that Canada’s position on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was “shameful,” adding that measures announced by Ottawa against Kigali would not solve the conflict. Late on Monday, Canada announced it had suspended the issuance of permits for the export of controlled goods and …

Congo has severed all diplomatic ties with Rwanda and South Africa, and said on Saturday that nine of its peacekeepers had been killed amid a surge in fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels in mineral-rich eastern Congo. The three-year M23 insurgency in eastern Congo has intensified in January with the rebels seizing …

Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people. Rwanda, which received 700 doses of a vaccine under trial from the U.S.-based Sabin Vaccine Institute, will offer it to …

Rwanda says that eight people have died so far from the highly contagious Marburg virus. The announcement comes just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people …

It was a visit heavy with political and perhaps even personal significance, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid a wreath on Thursday at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. The site contains the remains of more than 250,000 Rwandan Tutsis who were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in the spring and …

The war in Ukraine will cast its shadow over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Commonwealth national leaders as they arrive in Kigali, Rwanda on Wednesday for their first meeting since the onset of the pandemic. Food security — particularly in Africa — is expected to be a major topic of the leaders’ conference. …