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As many of us suspected, the Clinton Foundation "business" was intertwined with Hillary Clinton's official duties at State. Emails made public through FOIA have shown that Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills passed on classified information to the Clinton Foundation: Hillary Clinton's top State Department aide sent internal agency correspondence to Clinton Foundation officials, raising new questions about how her inner circle handled sensitive information. The internal emails, which were obtained by Citizens United through the Freedom of Information Act, have since been classified. They were passed to the Clinton Foundation by Cheryl Mills, Clinton's former chief of staff. In one...

Charles Munyaneza, executive secretary of the National Electoral Commission, said 98.4 percent of voters supported the proposed amendment. Turnout was high, with 98.3 percent of registered voters participating. Rwandans in the diaspora voted Thursday, while the entire country voted Friday. Munyaneza said that "6,155,606 Rwandans voted yes and 100,863 Rwandans voted no. …The process has been peaceful mostly at the polling stations. Rwandans were very enthusiastic, and I think this is the first time that we have got that kind of voter turnout. We are impressed that youth, "he students, really participated in their big numbers.” ... The Rwandan constitution...

NAIROBI (AFP) – A Rwandan journalist who accused the regime of attempting to assassinate a dissident general in Johannesburg was gunned down in Kigali, police said Friday, fuelling tensions ahead of August elections. Jean-Leonard Rugambage's colleagues and media watchdog Reporters Without Borders alleged Thursday's killing was linked to reports alleging the involvement of President Paul Kagame's services in the assassination bid. "He was killed in front of his house when he was going home at 10 pm last night," police spokesman Eric Kayiranga told AFP by telephone, adding that the "unknown gunman" responsible for the attack had fled. Rugambage ran...

New Jersey banker having fun with new career in entertainment Your life can change in a blink of an eye. Tom Murro is a testament to that. One day, he is an affable, personable and regular guy in the banking business. Then. Wham! The next day he is a celebrity magnet. And it all started with a happen-chance meeting with President Obama on a Martha's Vineyard golf course.

The New Times (Kigali) NEWS 30 March 2008 Posted to the web 31 March 2008 By Edwin Musoni Kigali Rwanda in the past existed with no purpose which resulted to a shameful history. now the country has chosen to live with a purpose for prosperity and faith, President Paul Kagame has said. The President was speaking at a gathering that brought together thousands of Rwandan Christians during the launch of '40 Days of Purpose' at Amahoro National Stadium last evening. The launch was blessed by among others, the influential evangelical preacher and author of the Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren...

PARIS (Reuters) - A top French judge has called for Rwandan President Paul Kagame to be brought before a U.N. court over a 1994 plane crash that killed the country's president and sparked a genocide, a judicial source said on Tuesday.

PARIS (AFP) - A French judge recommended that Rwandan President Paul Kagame should face an international war crimes court over his alleged involvement in the death of a former Rwandan leader that sparked the 1994 genocide, court sources said. Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the judge leading a probe into the attack on a plane carrying the then president Juvenal Habyarimana, said Kagame should face charges at the international war crimes court for Rwanda in Tanzania. The attack on the plane carrying Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, in April 1994 ignited ethnic tensions in the country, sparking a genocide in which Hutu extremists slaughtered...

President Bush traveled to Ohio today to talk about taxes and Social Security. Before he left for Ohio he met with Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame. The President and first lady are now at Camp David for the weekend

KIGALI (AFP) - The central African state of Rwanda is to investigate France's alleged role in genocide there 10 years ago in which the United Nations (news - web sites) estimates 800,000 people died, the Rwandan government said. A cabinet meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame on Friday adopted a bill "to create a national independent commission charged with assembling the evidence of France's involvement in the genocide perpetrated in Rwanda in 1994," said a statement sent to AFP. Rwanda's Foreign Minister Charles Murigande said here Sunday France was willing to "accept an equitable share of the blame" for what...

As Rwandans begin the formal remembrance of the victims of the genocide that began 10 years ago today, President Paul Kagame has denounced the world's "deliberate failure" to stop the slaughter of ethnic Tutsis. "When genocide takes place, the international community should not shy away from its responsibilities ... How could the lives of one million Rwandese be considered so insignificant?" he asked, speaking for many of his countrymen who lived through the 100 days of terror.   "Do the powerful nations have a hidden agenda? I would hate to believe that this agenda is dictated by racist considerations or...

France accused of genocide role Kagame denies ordering the shooting down of the Rwandan president's plane in 1994 Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused French people of "direct involvement" in the 1994 genocide. He told the French state-owned RFI radio that they provided weapons and training, and gave orders to those who killed some 800,000 people. He said the "French elements" were acting on government orders. The president was speaking a week after a French daily reported a police report that blamed him for a rocket attack that precipitated the massacre. "Sooner or later they will have to account for...

After a campaign of intimidation and rigging outlandish even by Africa's standards, Rwanda holds its first presidential elections since the genocide of 1994 today, still haunted by the massacres. The first multi-party poll in the country's history is supposed to represent a crucial moment of catharsis nine years after Tutsi rebels deposed the extremist Hutu perpetrators of the 20th century's most intensive blood-letting. Between 500,000 and one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in only 100 days between April and July 1994. At face value, the outcome of today's election appears remarkable. President Paul Kagame, a Tutsi whose Rwandan Patriotic...