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Number of hotel rooms must grow in tandem with better service

Thursday, January 09, 2025
Between June 28 and July 30, 1960, local council elections were held. PARMEHUTU secured 70.4% of the seats, while voter abstention stood at approximately 21.8%. File

Colonial manipulation of elections in Rwanda: A historical analysis

Thursday, January 09, 2025
Some members of genocidal group FDLR are fighting along the DR Congo army in its battle against the M23 rebel group in the eastern DR Congo in 2022. File

Think tanks and the narrative of convenience: Rwanda, DR Congo, and the western agenda

Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Agemira, a private military company registered in Bulgaria, leads operations in the DRC alongside the FARDC. (© Montage JA; VPMDefenseRDC)

The theater of hypocrisy: How DR Congo redefines mockery and rationality

Wednesday, January 08, 2025
The European Union and the US State Department have once again issued statements on the “latest developments in Eastern DR Congo.” 

Western complicity in eastern DR Congo: A crisis sustained by selective diplomacy

Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Rwanda has made significant achievements in managing HIVAIDS, having reached the 95-95-95” target set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS
Editorial

New year, same goal: Stop HIV

Wednesday, January 08, 2025
The New Times

Can someone volunteer to help us break our cycles of poverty?

Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Révérien Ndikuriyo, Secretary General of Burundi's ruling party, CNDD-FDD. Courtesy Photo
Editorial

Burundian officials should stop trivialising the Genocide

Tuesday, January 07, 2025
Ticket sellers serve travellers at Kigali Pele Stadium early Tuesday as thousands scrambled to catch buses en route to upcountry destinations on Christmas Eve. Photo by Craish Bahizi.

New Year festivities and the state of the nation

Tuesday, January 07, 2025
According to the history, Prince Mucocori and Bigirimana fled to Bigogwe after the death of King Ndahiro II Cyamatare, escaping Ntsibula, who had declared himself King of Rwanda. 

The tale of Prince Mucocori and the people of Bigogwe

Tuesday, January 07, 2025
Rwanda international Emmanuel Rugamba, an NFL star now plays for BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Courtesy

What Manny Rugamba’s journey in American football suggests about our sports prospects

Monday, January 06, 2025
A woman sleeps under a mosquito net in Bugesera District during a malaria awareness campaign. File photo
Editorial

We need a communal approach to push back on malaria resurgence

Monday, January 06, 2025
The trio, Nelly Mukazayire as Minister, Rwego Ngarambe as State Minister, and François-Régis Uwayezu as Permanent Secretary has been tasked with a monumental mission.

Team Nelly and Kigali’s sporting vision

Sunday, January 05, 2025
A view of one of the new water drainage systems constructed in Kigali to curb floods in the capital. Sam Ngendahimana
Editorial

Development and resilience are not mutually exclusive, Kigali can have both

Friday, January 03, 2025
The New Times

A personal experience of using a vision board to achieve my goals

Thursday, January 02, 2025
Patrice Rudatinya Mbonyumutwa

The psychosis of denial: Twisting truth into a lie

Thursday, January 02, 2025
Participants during the Ulinzi Breast Cancer Awareness Walk in 2022. Courtesy

Cancer: Increased awareness and diagnostics improve outcomes

Thursday, January 02, 2025
The New Times
Editorial

Otherness has no place in Rwanda today and tomorrow

Wednesday, January 01, 2025
The Capital Market Authority (CMA) of Rwanda.

2024: A year of innovation and growth at the Rwanda Stock Exchange

Tuesday, December 31, 2024
UNFPA Representative in Rwanda, Dr. Olugbemiga Adelakin, speaking at the launch of the campaign against ‘Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV).’

Securing our digital space this festive season and beyond

Tuesday, December 31, 2024