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Embassy of Belgium in Kigali. Rwanda, on Monday, March 17. Rwanda has decided to no longer tolerate relationships that are exploitative.

Rising with Rwanda: A call to action for youth

Monday, April 21, 2025
Traffic police officers during an awareness campaign on road safety. SAM NGENDAHIMANA
Editorial

Embracing technology to enhance road safety is timely

Monday, April 21, 2025
Youth-led development can bring a new perspective to existing challenges, creative and critical thinking and a future focus that can complement and honour existing culture and norms.

Why young talent should 'innovate in Rwanda'

Monday, April 21, 2025
Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, the DR Congo Foreign Minister, addresses UN Security Council.

The drama of the absurd at the United Nations

Sunday, April 20, 2025
The recent first-ever Global AI Africa Summit, hosted by Rwanda, was a milestone for Africa.

China and Africa: Partnership for an AI-powered future

Saturday, April 19, 2025
HR, born in the early 20th century as “personnel,” was designed to hire, discipline, fire, and pay.

Reinventing the corporate core: Why HR and finance must transform

Saturday, April 19, 2025
With a clenched fist and a scarf in RPF colours, this senior citizen looked the part as he whispered something in President Kagame's ear during the latter's campaign rally in Kirehe on July 2. File

How ancestral legacy shaped Paul Kagame’s leadership

Friday, April 18, 2025
UN Women Country Representative, Ms. Jennet Kem.

Gender equality, women’s rights and empowerment are non-negotiable

Friday, April 18, 2025
Some residential housing units in Nyarugunga sector in Kicukiro District. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA
Editorial

We must guard consumers against unfair housing prices

Friday, April 18, 2025
Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente delivers his remarks during the presentation of the seventh Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey during the meeting on Wednesday, April 16. Bahizi
Editorial

Consolidating our gains amidst global challenges​ is a collective imperative

Thursday, April 17, 2025
The New Times

The AI Divide: Why Africa must lead its own digital destiny

Thursday, April 17, 2025
At the end of the First Republic, PARMEHUTU relied on a small group of people from Gitarama who were among President Kayibanda’s faithful friends.

How Kayibanda’s regime of divisionism destroyed itself

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
The Future of Jobs Report 2025 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) highlights the shifting nature of work, emphasising the rising demand for skills in technology, engineering, artificial intelligence (AI).

The next superpower isn’t a country, it is Africa’s youth

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Jean-Paulin Uwitonze, Assistant Commissioner for Taxpayer Services and Communications at RRA.
Editorial

Tax enforcement on wedding service providers long overdue

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Kinshasa's intentions are transparent. By equipping Wazalendo, the government cultivates a proxy force that can engage AFCM23 without implicating the FARDC. 

Kinshasa's deceptive strategy: The rise of Wazalendo and the urgency for M23 to act

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Visitors during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial. Sam Ngendahimana

A young man's witness to Rwanda's resilience after the Genocide

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
The New Times

Dr. Richard Kandt’s role in sowing division in Rwanda

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
People are born with varying levels of emotional intelligence, the ability to manage one’s own emotions and understand or influence the emotions of others in their surroundings.

Emotional intelligence: How positive thoughts stave off worry and anxiety

Monday, April 14, 2025
Government officials, politicians and other mourners observe a moment of silence to pay tributes to the victims at Rebero Genocide Memorial on Sunday, April 13.Photo by Dan Gatsinzi
Editorial

Kwibuka31: Why it is important to get politics right

Monday, April 14, 2025
A genocide survivor forgiving a former Genocide perpetrator after asking for forgiveness at Nyamata Parish Bugesera District on 8 January 2017 . Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Rwanda’s journey of healing: From Genocide to unity, hope, and health

Monday, April 14, 2025