MIDIMAR and UNHCR Managers want provinces experts in the implementation of the “Sustainable Return and Reintegration of Rwandan Returnees”.

It is during a meeting with governors of three provinces: the Southern Province, MUNYANTWARI Alphonse, Aime BOSENIBAMWE, Governor of the Northern Province and Celestin KABAHIZI, Governor of the Eastern Province. The governors were called to join MIDIMAR and the UNHCR Choose with concerned Governors priority districts where the project on Sustainable Return and Reintegration of Rwandan Returnees can be implemented.

Joe DeCapua Last updated on: March 21, 2013 8:01 AM

It’s been 19 years since the Rwandan genocide. Much has been done regarding reconciliation and rebuilding. But the work continues, including helping those who became orphans during and after the mass killings. At a youth village in Rwanda, more than 100 high school seniors, all orphans, recently passed their national exams to graduate.

It’s called Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. The name is a combination of Kinyarwanda and Hebrew -- Agahozo meaning “where tears are dried” and Shalom meaning “peace.”

01 MARCH 2013

A £16 million package of development support to Rwanda will be channelled through aid agencies or directly to the poorest people, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced today. None of this funding will be released to Rwanda as general budget support - meaning that it won't go through the Rwandan government.

Following a breach of agreed development assistance partnership principles, the UK government decided in November 2012 not to release £21 million of general budget support to the government of Rwanda.

Lancé le 11 décembre dernier pour une période de trois ans, le Programme "USAID Gimbuka" exécuté en partenariat direct entre l’organisme américain, USAID, et la Caritas Rwanda, a concrétisé l’un de ses volets, en ce début de l’année scolaire 2013, en distribuant du matériel scolaire et de toilette à 14 993 élèves vulnérables et orphelins de l’école primaire (7955 élèves) et secondaire (7038 élèves) de 14 districts de sa zone d’opération et 5 districts dits hors-zone.

By Patrick Slavin

KIGEME, Rwanda, 10 December 2012– The clapping grows louder as hundreds of onlookers cheer for their six young friends from the Democratic Republic of Congo who dance in front of the new education facilities.

Soon the children will be able to learn and play – reason enough to celebrate and fete at the hand-over ceremony at Kigeme refugee camp in southwestern Rwanda.

A chance to thrive and develop

New Official Refugee Statistics Released

On Monday 27th of August, the Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs, the Department of Immigration/Emigration, UNIFICR, and WFP released the official updated statistics of all refugees living in Rwanda. These results were published following the completion of the comprehensive registration and verification exercise, which was carried out in all refugee locations.

The final statistics show that there are 57,976 refugees currently living in Rwanda, majority of whom are from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

By Vlad Dandu

Pacifique attends the Muhango District Amahoro playgroup daily where he socializes and learns alongside 124 other children ages 3-6. One could not tell he is 9 years old since he is of similar height and weight as most 6 year old boys of the group.

Kibuye, 18 June 2012 – "We're refugees and we live in difficult circumstances. But there are refugees who are more vulnerable than us in the camp, older people, orphans, those with medical conditions. We believe in God and it's our duty help and be close to them", said Dieudonné Niyileiyi, who along with 18,000 Congolese refugees has lived for more than 15 years in Kiziba camp western Rwanda.

11 June 2012: Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and remain internally displaced, or have sought refuge in neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda, as a result of intense fighting between Congolese Government forces and armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).