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Africa

African Union launches strategy to combat desertification

Wednesday, May 08, 2024
CND project, will cover 250,000 hectares with forest restoration, and expand agroforestry over 2,000 hectares. Photos by Germain Nsanzimana
Environment

Project in pipeline to restore Congo-Nile Divide

Wednesday, May 08, 2024
Workers sorting waste at Nduba landfill in Nduba Sector, Gasabo District. File
Environment

A closer look at practices, challenges of waste management

Friday, May 03, 2024
A section of Kigali-Muhanga road in Nkoto Cell, Rugarika Sector, Kamonyi District, that was destroyed by heavy rains on Monday, April 29. Courtesy
Environment

Weather forecaster warns of heavy floods, rainstorms, landslides in first week of May

Monday, April 29, 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
A view of Rusororo cemetry in Gasabo District. A proposed law amendment seeks to ban burying the dead in tombs built with cement and tiles. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Rwanda

Govt mulls ban on concrete tombs to optimize land use

Thursday, April 25, 2024
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo soldiers rest next to a road after Islamist rebel group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked area around Mukoko village, North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 11, 2018.
Africa

ADF rebels kill 15 in eastern DR Congo attacks

Sunday, April 14, 2024
Marine Umukunzi SDGP Maize Project Manager at Agriterra (in front) with KABOKU cooperative farmers, plant maize seeds in demo plots for minimum tillage trial, in Umuvumba Umuvumba valley, in Nyagatare District, on April 3.
Featured

Maize farmers reap benefits from SDGP maize project

Saturday, April 06, 2024
Names of victims of Genocide against the Tutsi at Murambi Genocide Memorial. Photo by Craish Bahizi

The purpose of Genocide memorials: Condemning ideology, not descendants

Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Pests known as 'mealybugs' have wreaked havoc on mango crops, causing a shortage in markets across Kigali city. File
Agriculture

Persistent pests trigger mango shortage in markets

Monday, April 01, 2024
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye during a meeting. Courtesy

Making sense of the primitive politics of Tshisekedi and Ndayishimiye

Wednesday, March 27, 2024
A forest that is harvested in Ruli Sector in Gakenke District. Parliament, on March 25, passed a bill governing forests and trees that prohibits Rwandans from cutting immature trees. PHOTO BY SAM NGENDAHIMANA
Environment

Parliament passes bill prohibiting harvest of immature trees

Tuesday, March 26, 2024