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Rwandan filmmaker Eric Kabera won the Lifetime Achievement Award at Afrika Film Festival in Leuven, Belgium. Courtesy photos
Cinema

Filmmaker Eric Kabera bags Lifetime Achievement Award

Thursday, May 02, 2024
Xtreme Cheerleaders is a group of young women that are bringing dance entertainment to sports. Photos by Christianne Murengerantwari_
Showbiz

Cheering Rwandan sport on: Meet Xtreme Cheerleaders

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Green Hills Academy (GHA) students performing a play during the school’s commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, on Friday, April 26.

Bridging Histories: Reflections from Rwandan and South African youth on 30 years of resilience and reckoning

Monday, April 29, 2024
A view of the newly completed Sebeya flood retention dam in Rubavu district to control River Sebeya floods.
Environment

How prepared are we one year after devastating rains?

Monday, April 29, 2024
Inside view of the soon-to-be-completed Amahoro Stadium in Remera in Kigali. Photo by Dan Datsinzi

Rwanda accomplishing big things? The secret lies in the details

Monday, April 29, 2024
Yvan Buravan would have turned 29 on April 27. ‘Twaje Fest; is being organised in honour of the late singer who passed away on August 22. 2022. Net photos.
Music

‘Twaje Fest’ in the pipeline to keep Yvan Buravan’s legacy alive

Monday, April 29, 2024
Rwanda's leading gospel artiste Israel Mbonyi, becomes Infinix’s NOTE 40, NOTE 40 Pro brand Ambassador. Courtesy
Showbiz

Showbiz recap: Twaje Fest announced, NEP DJs inks two-year deal with Ferwaba, and more

Sunday, April 28, 2024
Joan Wiegman , the Dutch Ambassador to Rwanda, delivers remarks as the Dutch community in Rwanda celebrated King's Day On Thursday evening, April 25. All photos by Craish Bahizi
Featured

King’s Day: A peek into Netherlands-Rwanda relations

Saturday, April 27, 2024
Green Hills Academy (GHA) students, along with staff, parents, during a Walk to Remember the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi On Friday, April 26. Courtesy
Kwibuka

Green Hills Academy students on why genocide commemoration is important

Saturday, April 27, 2024
Speaking during the 30th Commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London, on April 25, Rwanda's envoy to the UK, Johnston Busingye, said the Genocide against the Tutsi didn’t start with the machetes of April 1994. It started decades earlier with state directed ethnic populism, classification, discrimination, dehumanization, over time, all done with unimaginable impunity, he said.
Kwibuka

No Genocide happens without a plan, preparation, state involvement – Rwandan envoy

Friday, April 26, 2024
Tourists visit Akagera National Park. Rwanda’s tourism revenue rose by 36 percent from $445 million in 2022 to reach $620 million in 2023. Courtesy
Tourism

Rwanda’s tourism revenue hit $620 million in 2023

Thursday, April 25, 2024
Genocide convict Jean Baptiste Gatete, the former Bourgmestre of Murambi, was one of local leaders who played their role in planning and executing Genocide against the Tutsi
Rwanda

Role of local authorities in the planning and execution of genocide against the Tutsi between October 1990 and March 1994

Wednesday, April 24, 2024