15 May 2013 – From this week, the Aegis Trust’s peace-building education programme in Rwanda will no longer be limited to the Kigali Genocide Memorial; it’s going mobile – starting in Rubavu, Rwanda’s Western Province, where it is being hosted by Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle (VGN), with support from GIZ (the German Society for International Cooperation), 13 May – 3 June.

Profiled by the London Guardian in March, the programme is changing attitudes and behaviour not only among participating students, but also among their peers.

Handicap International has launched a regional project to prevent sexual violence against children with disabilities in Burundi, Rwanda and Kenya. The organisation decided to take action after learning that children with disabilities are 3 to 4 times more likely to be affected by physical and sexual violence than children without disabilities.

By Suzanne Mary Beukes

24–30 April is World Immunization Week. Immunization is a successful and cost-effective way to save children’s lives. UNICEF has been a driving force behind universal immunization since the 1980s – behind reaching each and every child.

UNICEF and its partners are now intensifying their efforts to ensure that the poorest and most disadvantaged children have access to immunization.

Rwanda has become the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to introduce a dual vaccine to protect children against measles and rubella.

Rwanda has tapped its post-conflict period to transform core programs like healthcare. Major gains include precipitous drops in HIV deaths and child mortality.

When Agnes Binagwaho began her career as a doctor in the slums of Kigali, Rwanda, in 1996, she worked in one of the most precarious health environments in the world.

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.”

Bujumbura, 15 March 2013 – In late January the Jesuit Refugee Service has closed its project in Rwanda after 17 years of accompaniment of the nearly 40,000 refugees from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing an end some of the oldest JRS projects in world.

Since 1996, JRS worked in two of three camps present in the country, Kiziba and Gihembe in western and northern Rwanda where teams worked closely with the refugee populations offering formal and informal education services, as well as pastoral, recreational and emergency activities.

L’UNICEF et ses partenaires veillent à ce que les enfants qui ont fui les violences en République démocratique du Congo et se sont réfugiés dans un centre de transit au Rwanda disposent d’espaces sûrs pour pouvoir être des enfants.

RUBAVU, Rwanda, 20 mars 2013 – Yvette Gateyeneza, 14 ans, passe la plupart de ses journées à aider sa mère et sa sœur aînée à préparer à manger, à aller chercher de l’eau et à laver les quelques vêtements qu’elles ont réussi à emporter avec elles avant de s’établir au camp de transit de Nkamira.

Rwanda first sub-Saharan African country to introduce measles-rubella vaccine nationwide with GAVI support

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.