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Embassy of Belgium in Kigali. Rwanda, on Monday, March 17, announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium with immediate effect. File

African renaissance: Is globalisation igniting its revival?

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Some of over 1,000 young people from Nyarugenge, Kicukiro, Gasabo, Bugesera, Kamonyi, and Muhanga districts during Rubyiruko Menya Amateka yawe Campaign in Kigali on March 25. Photos by Craish BAHIZI
Rwanda

Rwandan youth demand global action against Genocide deniers

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Judges during a session of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) that was recently concluded in Kigali, during a rotational session from mid-February to early March. Courtesy
Law

EACJ struggles with judgment enforcement, experts push for reform

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
President Kagame addresses thousands of delegates during a Presidential Citizen Outreach event at BK Arena on Sunday, March 16. The event brought together thousands of citizens, primarily from Kigali City. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA

Why the war Rwanda is fighting is every pan-Africanist war

Monday, March 24, 2025
Rwanda embassy in Brussels. Rwanda, on Monday, March 17, announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium with immediate effect.

Good riddance: The Belgium-Rwanda discord in perspective

Sunday, March 23, 2025
Foreign minister Amb Olivier Nduhungirehe represented President Paul Kagame at the celebration of Namibia’s 35th independence anniversary and the swearing-in of Dr. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the fifth President of Namibia, on Friday, March 21. The minister delivered a special message and gift to the President of Namibia on behalf of her counterpart from Rwanda.
Politics

Nandi-Ndaitwah election ‘an outstanding personal achievement, historic for Namibia’ – Nduhungirehe

Saturday, March 22, 2025
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (Front) speaks during a presidential inauguration ceremony in Windhoek, Namibia, on March 21, 2025. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in on Friday as the first female president of Namibia after winning elections last year.
International

Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, sworn in as Namibia's first female president

Saturday, March 22, 2025
Christopher Trott, the former UK Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial Museum. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Pan-Africanism and the unmasking of neo-colonial lies

Friday, March 21, 2025
University of Rwanda graduates during a graduation ceremony at Huye Campus stadium on October 25, 2024. Photo by Dan Gatsinzi
Education

How University of Rwanda plans to attain 63% self-financing

Thursday, March 20, 2025
From 1917, Belgium initiated a deep reform of Rwanda’s customary institutions. The changes introduced labor legislation including severe corporal punishments (whipping, beating, the categorization of Rwandans.

A Rwanda without Belgium? Six decades overdue

Thursday, March 20, 2025
Members of Twisungane cooperative work in their tomato plantation in Muko Sector in Musanze District.

Accelerating action: The financial sector’s role in empowering Rwandan women

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
The New Times

The end of development aid as we know it: A blessing for Africans

Wednesday, March 19, 2025