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President Kagame hands a posthumous medal for Capt. Mbaye Diagne to his widow during the 16th Liberation Day celebrations in Kigali in 2010. The UN Security Council yesterday created u2018the u2018Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courageu2019 in honour of a peacekeeper credited with saving lives in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. File.

UN medal named after fallen peacekeeper in Rwanda

Friday, May 09, 2014
Farmers tilling their land in Huye District. Many farmers are ignorant about land rights. (File)

Ombudsman in land rights campaign in Nyagatare District

Thursday, May 08, 2014
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Regional railway project gets new impetus

Thursday, May 08, 2014
Officials join participants in a group photo. (Jean du2019Amour Mbonyinshuti)

Security Forum opens in Musanze

Thursday, May 08, 2014
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EAC gets Euros 2.3 million for maritime security

Thursday, May 08, 2014
ICT innovators at kLab share ideas on how to develop software. (Timothy Kisambira)

Cultural promotion app to represent Rwanda in regional startups competition

Thursday, May 08, 2014
A picture combo of banking service providers in Kigali. The new fund will insure clientsu2019 savings. (File)

Govt tables before Parliament draft law to protect bank savings

Thursday, May 08, 2014
Sinzi used his martial arts and perseverance skills to save more than 100 people. (Jean-Pierre Bucyensenge)

Sinzi, the man who used martial arts to save lives in the Genocide

Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Visitors look at pictures in Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. Munyaneza (bottom) lost his conviction appeal in Canada. (File)

Canadian court dismisses Genocide convict’s appeal

Wednesday, May 07, 2014
President Kagame speaks on topic, u2018Free to Travelu2019, at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Abuja, Nigeria, yesterday. The topic also had panelists, seated from the right, AfDB president Donald Kaberuka, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian business magnate, and Malian Prime Minister Moussa Mara. (Village Urugwiro)

Kagame on why Rwanda opened borders to Africans

Wednesday, May 07, 2014
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Cop shoots city suspected thief

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
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Rwamagana man held over defiling seven-year-old

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
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Rwamagana accident claims three

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
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Journalists told to prioritise labour-related stories

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
A nurse at the Kacyiru Police Hospital immunises a baby. Timothy Kisambira.

Rwanda maintains good conditions for mothers

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Journalists interview a source at the Kigali Regional Stadium over the weekend. Timothy Kisambira.

Rwandan journalists grapple with unmet promises in the workplace

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
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Polio declared global health emergency

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
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Profemmes in joint deal on women issues

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Panelists (L-R) Mathew Pritchard,Graham Gass, Wazedul Islam Pahlowan, Sandan Samarayanake, and Vishal Gadhavi during the meeting in Kigali yesterday.Timothy Kisambira.

Poverty reduction to influence govt policy

Tuesday, May 06, 2014
SImpunga stands shoulder to shoulder with his sister, the first blood relative he met after years of search. JP Bucyensenge.

Twenty years later, Simpunga on cloud nine after reuniting with ‘lost’ relative

Tuesday, May 06, 2014