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 Michel Nkurunziza
Michel Nkurunziza
The type of cement donated, he noted, is the best quality, known as “Twiga Plus”, which is recommended for big infrastructures.
Rwanda
Twiga Cement donates 1,280 bags to disaster-affected households
On May 12, 2023, The staff toured the memorial site and laid wreaths on a grave where over 6,000 genocide victims are resting in peace.
Kwibuka
PHOTOS: Enabel staff visit Ntarama Genocide Memorial, pay homage to genocide victims
A scene of a fatal accident where a Howo truck collided with other vehicles in Kamonyi District. According to Rwanda National Police, a total of 1,971 people have been killed since 2020 because of road accidents countrywide. Courtesy
Rwanda
Insurance premiums for HOWO and FUSO trucks increased by 150%
A teller serves a customer at Kacyiru SACCO in Kigali. Craish Bahizi
Rwanda
Mad rush to reactivate dormant accounts as SACCOs get automated
The former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana (on the right), who became a French citizen in 2005 under the name Philippe Manier, accused of participating in massacres of Tutsi civilians, during his trial at the Palace of Justice in Paris on May 10, 2023. (BENOIT PEYRUCQ / AFP)
Crime
Survivors welcome trial of Genocide fugitive in France
A segment of a place that was damaged by landslides at Myembe, in Kimihurura Sector, Gasabo District in Kigali City. The City of Kigali’s recent assessment found 24,404 plots with about 27,000 houses in high-risk zones despite living in residential areas in 35 sectors of the capital. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Kigali: 6,000 families to be relocated from high-risk zones
Rwandan and Chinese medical teams at Masaka and Kibungo hospitals joined medical practitioners at Baotou Center Hospital in China in a virtual
event to mark International Nurses Day on Wednesday, May 10. Photo: Courtesy.
Featured
Chinese medics, Rwanda nurses mark International Nurses Day
A segment of Musanze-Rubavu road that was damaged by floods on May 3. The government will spend Rwf41 billion on rebuilding national roads, Rwf38 billion on bridges, and Rwf25 billion on inter-district roads that were affected. Photo: Courtesy.
Infrastructure
What will it take to have disaster-resilient roads?
Rose Mukankomeje, the Director of  Higher Education Council.(File)
Education
32 varsity students’ innovations to be linked to investors
A view of some properties that were distroyed by floods. MINEMA has announced that it will resettle 9,231 people who are currently homeless after being displaced by flooding and landslides. Olivier Mugwiza
Rwanda
Disaster recovery: What is the fate of over 9,000 displaced people?
Over 100 community health workers were deployed to provide adequate health care to children affected by the floods in the most affected areas. Photos by Olivier Mugwiza
Rwanda
Disaster response: Community health workers deployed to support children
The Gisenyi hydropower and water treatment plant is yet to resume operations that were halted due to the heavy rains that caused flooding and landslides in the area.Photos by Olivier Mugwiza
Infrastructure
Some hydropower, water treatment plants resume as recovery efforts intensify
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Rwanda
Grieving mother still searching for 7-year-old son missing under landslide
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Rwanda
Four school children from same family perished in Rubavu landslides
Photo by Germain Nsanzimana
Environment
Water shortage threat as treatment plants are hit by floods
Photo by Germain Nsanzimana
Environment
Flood response: Local government orders urgent relocation from high risk zones
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Environment
Rwanda sets up command centre to coordinate flood disaster interventions
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Environment
Over 100 dead as rain ravages Northern, Western provinces

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