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The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter, during the press conference held on Friday, May 30, 2025, in Kigali. PHOTO BY EMMANUEL NTIRENGANYA
Economy

Set minimum wage to address in-work poverty — UN Special Rapporteur

Saturday, May 31, 2025
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter is visiting Rwanda from May 18.
Rwanda

UN Special Rapporteur lauds Rwanda’s poverty reduction efforts

Friday, May 30, 2025
The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie (APF), Hilarion Etong (Right) and Senate President Francois Xavier Kalinda and Speaker of Chamber of Deputies Gerturde Kazarwa during a meeting in Kigali
Africa

La Francophonie Assembly hopes parliamentary diplomacy can help end eastern DR Congo conflict

Thursday, May 29, 2025
RwandAir's plane taking off at Kigali International Airport. The cabinet meeting approved the ratification of bilateral air service agreements between the Rwanda and the governments of 12 countries . Sam Ngendahimana
Aviation

Rwanda cabinet approves air service agreements with 12 countries

Monday, May 26, 2025
Gregoire Kayibanda, former president of Rwanda and Anastase Makuza, Kayibanda’s minister and later a key figure in Juvénal Habyarimana’s regime, reinforced and propagated this ideology. Courtesy

The racial purity delusion: From bedfellows to butchers

Monday, May 26, 2025
Christopher Trott , the former UK Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Why Rwanda kicked out quack surgeons from Belgium

Thursday, May 22, 2025
L-R: Menelas Nkeshimana, Head of the Health Workforce Department in the Ministry of Health, Dr Olugbemiga Adelakin, UNFPA Country Representative, Claudette Nirere, the Minister of State for Education, Amb. Mridu Pawan Das, High Commission of India to Rwanda, pose for a photo at the launch in Kigali, on Tuesday, May 20. Courtesy
Featured

Midwifery at forefront of new initiative to combat maternal mortality

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Agathe Kanziga Habyarimana, the wife of former President Juvenal Habyarimana.
Crime

What’s next after French judge closes investigation into Agathe Habyarimana?

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director of Telecommunication Standardization Policy Department at the ITU Standardization Bureau during an interview. Courtesy
Technology

Is there risk AI policies might become symbolic in Africa?

Monday, May 19, 2025
Corneille Nangaa, coordinator of the Alliance Fleuve Congo, gestures during a press conference held in Goma in January after the rebels took over the city.Photo courtesy
Africa

AFC/M23 leader Corneille Nangaa states four reasons why his movement is fighting Tshisekedi govt

Saturday, May 17, 2025
Members of the parliamentary committee on National Unity, Human Rights and the Fight against Genocide during the meeting.
Crime

Study links persistent genocide ideology with divisive regional politics

Tuesday, May 06, 2025
People search for bodies of victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Nyarugenge District.
Kwibuka

Ibuka, AVEGA urge tougher measures to end silence on whereabouts of Genocide victims

Monday, May 05, 2025