Rwanda

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Tuesday that they will invest money across various initiatives, including funding eight universities across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to 'reinvent the toilet'.

An entire industry has come up to manage the celebrities and their causes

In the ongoing case over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the first woman to be convicted of genocide will get life in prison

Miss California Alyssa Campanella, 21, was crowned with the title of Miss USA 2011 Sunday night, beating 50 other beauties at the annual beauty pageant held at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

On the heels of the arrest of Ratko Mladic in Serbia, another war crimes fugitive has been captured thousands of miles away in southern Africa.

The East African country of Uganda is reportedly willing to allow Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi to live there in exile, according to spokesman for Ugandan president.

The uprising against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi will be crushed within the next forty-eight hours as forces loyal to the government close in on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in the eastern part of the embattled country, according to Gaddafi’s son.

Rwanda has put plans of awarding a fourth mobile phone operator's licence on the ice until subscriber growth and market share distribution stabilises, the industry regulator said on Friday.

Consumer prices in Rwanda fell for the seventh straight month in January, largely on the cost of vegetables and fish, the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) said on Wednesday.

Rwanda's economic growth will slow to 7 percent in 2011 from 7.4 percent a year before, while inflation is projected to quicken to an average of 4.4 percent due to oil prices, the finance minister said on Wednesday.

Two political scientists at Hebrew University in Israel say they have come up with a method of predicting the likelihood that a country will suffer civil unrest.

Kenya's biggest sugar miller, Mumias Sugar Company on Monday forecast it could earn 2 billion shillings from a new ethanol distillation plant once it is in production next year.

Shares in Rwandan brewer Bralirwa jumped 62 percent on their market debut as the country's stock exchange opened for business on Monday.

A grenade attack killed two people and wounded at least 28 in Rwanda's capital Kigali during the Friday evening rush hour, the police said on Saturday.