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The negative impact of social media cannot be ignored, for it is where fake news is shared and without fact-checking, it spreads widely on such platforms. / Sam Ngendahimana

The era of ‘fake’ news: How is the internet influencing politics in Africa?

Sunday, June 09, 2019
Jan Low is World Food Prize Co-Laureate and the Principal Scientist for the International Potato Centre. The agricultural economist is advocating for nutrition to be made a basic human right. / Courtesy

Could sweet potato be a solution to Africa’s food insecurity, malnutrition?

Sunday, June 09, 2019
Guilty of horrible crime Elia Niyonzima admits to having dumped all Nasson Nzabahayo's children in a hole and throwing a multitude of stones on them until they died during the 1994 genocide against Tutsi. / Craish Bahizi

Genocide convict narrates how he buried children alive

Sunday, June 09, 2019
Some of the beneficiaries converge after receiving materials for their training sessions. / Courtesy

Nestlé and Sucafina partner to support 8000 households

Sunday, June 09, 2019
Some of Members of Agaciro Generation during the meeting to create the fund. / Emmanuel Kwizera

New fund to fight people negating, denying genocide launched

Saturday, June 08, 2019
The New Times

PHOTOS: How Kigali Night Run went down

Saturday, June 08, 2019
A pedestrian crosses a road as motorists look on during the ongoing u2018Gerayo amahorou2019 road safety campaign. Courtesy.
Rwanda

‘Gerayo Amahoro’ campaign extended to taxi-moto operators

Friday, June 07, 2019
Rwanda Investigation Bureau head office in Kimihurura, Kigali. E. Kwizera.
Rwanda

Graft: prosecution working on ‘Big Fish’ files

Friday, June 07, 2019
The Director General of Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa, Belay Begashaw, addresses the media in Kigali yesterday. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

SDGs: Africa ‘faces annual funding gap of $500 billion’

Friday, June 07, 2019
Women work on a potato farm in Muko Sector, Musanze District. File.
Rwanda

Senators call for more funding for climate change adaptation

Friday, June 07, 2019
Gen Nyamvumba awards Maj Evans Komedjah, from Ghana, as the overall best student. Ru00e9gis Umurengezi.
Rwanda

Gen Nyamvumba tips African military officers on selfless service, peacebuilding

Friday, June 07, 2019
Wilfred Murungi. (Net photo)
International

Mastermind Tobacco Chairman, Wilfred Murungi, dead

Friday, June 07, 2019
Participants at the Kigali Night Run. (Courtesy)

Kigali Night Run returns tonight

Friday, June 07, 2019
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Khartoum this morning for talks with the Chief of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, Lt. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. / Courtesy

Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed holds mediation talks in Sudan

Friday, June 07, 2019
May replaced David Cameron in July 2016 after British voters chose to leave the EU. Net Photo

May officially steps down as Tory leader, to stay on as PM until successor is picked

Friday, June 07, 2019
Senators during a session in the Parliament yesterday. / Craish Bahizi

Senators urge statistical office to play greater role in policymaking, planning

Friday, June 07, 2019
Mara Corporation CEO, Ashish Thakkar and Managing Director of Kinunu Wonders Ltd. Sonia Kubwimana during the Made in Africa Leadership Conference in Kigali on June 6, 2019. / Craish Bahizi
Technology

First Rwandan smartphone hits market in two months

Thursday, June 06, 2019
Andrew Mwenda. / Net photo

Uganda-Rwanda crisis: Andrew Mwenda can no longer feign neutrality

Thursday, June 06, 2019
The Chief Prosecutor for the International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Serge Brammertz, addresses journalists as Prosecutor-General Jean-Bosco Mutangana looks on in Kigali yesterday. The visiting UN official called for an international law punishes denial of genocide and other crimes against humanity recognised by international tribunals. / Sam Ngendahimana

MICT prosecutor calls for global action against Genocide denial

Thursday, June 06, 2019
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Top emitters of greenhouse gases in Rwanda named

Thursday, June 06, 2019