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Prime Minister Justin Nsengiyumva (right) consults with Minister of Local Government Dominique Habimana during a consultative meeting in Gako, Bugesera District, on Monday, March 23. Data from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) on Imihigo performance rankings for the 2024/2025 fiscal year, show a decline in districts’ overall performance, with a drop of more than seven percentage points compared to 2021/2022. Courtesy
Politics

What explains recent drop in Imihigo performance scores?

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has announced that several old bank notes will cease to be legal tender within the next 12 months.
Finance

Old bank notes to be phased out within a year

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Phelomene Mukamusoni, a resident in Ruhango district, access to funds from CDAT project, improved her potato multiplying business. The project granted her with Rwf 70 million.
Agriculture

CDAT project fuels smallholder farmers’ growth into agribusiness investors

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Residents attend the event as Rwanda joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Tuberculosis Day on March 24 at Gasabo District. Courtesy
Health

World TB day: Death rate drops by over 95% in Rwanda

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Aloys Kayiranga, one of the survivors of Nyange shares the testmony during the 29th commemoration. He was 19 when the attacker stormed Ecole Secondaire de Nyange in Ngororero District.
Rwanda

Former Nyange student recalls gruesome attack of March 18, 1997

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
AFC-M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka speaks to journalists on Tuesday, March 24, 2025. Olivier Mugwiza
Africa

DR Congo: 11 killed in govt coalition attacks on Kalehe, rebels say

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Flames and thick black smoke rise from the Colombian air force's C-130 Hercules that crashed during takeoff, in Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, on March 23, 2026. AFP PHOTO
International

Colombian military plane crash kills at least 66, wounds dozens

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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Africa

Nduhungirehe warns against silence amid genocide ideology, Tutsi persecution in DR Congo

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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Health

Tuberculosis: 5–7% of patients die due to late detection

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Rwesero Art Museum. Craish BAHIZI
Culture

Inside Rwanda’s 20 newly classified cultural heritage sites

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Tony Kajangwe, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industry delivers his remarks at the listing event. Courtesy
Economy

SMEs urged to look beyond bank loans for funding

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of OnlyFans,, has died at the age of 43 following a prolonged battle with cancer.
International

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43

Monday, March 23, 2026