Paul Kagame

Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera, left, and the director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry Yuval Rotem open Israel's new embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, April 1, 2019 (courtesy MFA)

April 1, 2019, 3:48 pm

Boosting diplomatic drive to Africa, Israel opens embassy in Rwanda

New mission in Kigali is Israel’s 11th embassy on the continent; ‘Rwanda has proven to be a steady, true friend,’ Foreign Ministry says

By Raphael Ahren

Israel's new Ambassador to Rwanda, Ron Adam, left, presents his credentials to Rwanda President Paul Kagame, on February 21, 2019. (Office of the President of Rwanda)

February 22, 2019, 6:48 pm

Boosting Africa ties, Israel opens first embassy in Rwanda

Netanyahu has made expanding Jerusalem’s relations in Africa a key component of his foreign policy

By AFP and TOI staff

A RwandAir plane, September 21, 2016. (Wikipedia/Pedro Aragão CC-BY-SA-3.0)

January 7, 2019, 5:18 pm

Israel, Rwanda to open direct flight between countries ‘within months’

Aviation agreement caps several weeks of talks between Transportation Ministry and Kigali amid Israeli bid to boost diplomatic ties with Africa

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame (L) in New York, September 27, 2018 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

September 29, 2018, 8:00 pm

Netanyahu says Israel, Rwanda to open mutual embassies

PM states Kigali officials also interested in starting direct flights to Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (R) in New York, September 27, 2018 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

September 28, 2018, 8:22 pm

PM asks UN secretary-general to request IAEA investigation of Iran nuclear sites

Netanyahu wants inspections of warehouse whose existence he revealed in UNGA speech; also meets Rwandan president to discuss Iranian aggression

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump (right) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on March 5, 2018, in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

September 26, 2018, 12:29 pm

Netanyahu to meet Trump ahead of UN Security Council meeting on Iran

Tehran’s nuclear activities and entrenchment in Syria to dominate agenda of Israeli, US leaders on third day of General Assembly

By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 72nd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York, September 19, 2017. (AFP/Jewel SAMAD)

September 25, 2018, 7:57 am

Netanyahu heads to New York for UN speech, Trump meeting

PM also expected to confer with leaders of Europe and Egypt, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, UN chief Guterres and American Jewish leaders

By Raphael Ahren

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the deportation plan, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

February 7, 2018, 4:12 pm

Thousands of African migrants protest deportations at Rwandan embassy

‘Would you deport me if I were white?’ ask white-painted demonstrators as Israel’s expulsion effort gets underway

By TOI staff

Illustrative: South Sudanese refugees line up to fill their plastic containers with water from a tap at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda,, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

February 4, 2018, 2:38 pm

Rwanda, Uganda trade barbs over treatment of refugees

Neighboring East African countries have had years of uneasy relations over claims of forced repatriation and torture

By AP and TOI staff

Labor leader Avi Gabbay, left, attending a news conference in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2017; Yair Lapid attending a conference in Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90; Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

January 29, 2018, 6:17 pm

Gabbay, Lapid blast government over Polish, Rwandan genocide initiatives

‘We don’t negotiate over the memory of the deceased,’ Yesh Atid chairman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, says, as Labor party head lambastes the PM for ‘imitating’ far right

By Raoul Wootliff

From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

January 28, 2018, 10:39 pm

Breaking with West, Israel backs Rwanda in renaming genocide

Hours before row with Poland, Jerusalem accused of supporting rewriting of history elsewhere, in reported quid pro quo with Kigali over migrants

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Rwandan President President Paul Kagame during a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 26, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. ( AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)

January 26, 2018, 4:55 pm

Trump praises African leader in wake of ‘shithole’ comments

US president meets Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Davos, hails ‘tremendous discussions’

By Catherine Lucey

US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, January 24, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)

January 25, 2018, 9:00 am

Trump takes ‘America First’ message to World Economic Forum

US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin indicates president will try to reassure globalists in Davos about his policies; American leader also to meet with Netanyahu during trip

By Andrew BEATTY

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (GPO)

January 25, 2018, 12:35 am

Netanyahu agrees to Rwandan demand to only deport migrants there lawfully

Meeting Kagame, PM appears to concede he won’t sent forcibly deported migrants to Rwanda, day after Kigali denies signing secret deal to accept them

By Jacob Magid

January 23, 2018, 4:22 pm

Lynn Schler

President Kagame: Don’t accept forced deportees!

Israeli refugee aid groups beseech the Rwandan leader to only allow in his country those who come willingly