A woman in Rwanda has confessed to poisoning wedding guests by putting rat poison in a pot of local homemade beer. One person has died and 52 others, including the bride and groom, were admitted into ...

108 couples in Kayonza District on Friday took part in a mass civil wedding jointly organised by non governmental organisation (NGO) Women for Women International and the district.

Rwanda has moved from a nation that treated women like property, whose chief function was to have children, to one that constitutionally mandates that at least 30 percent of government positions ...

Women made up 70 percent of Rwanda's population after the genocide in 1994. They joined politics in unprecedented numbers, helping to form a more equitable society. Still, there's much more to do.

But it's Rwanda that has the largest share of women serving in a country's legislature, at 64 percent. Now, women there are changing a country ravaged by genocide.