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Some combatants of the genocidal FDLR group, who were captured by M23 rebels, fighting alongside the DR Congo armed forces in the east of the country in 2022. Courtesy
Security

UN report pinpoints FDLR new hierarchy in DR Congo

Monday, May 27, 2024
Republican Guard are defending champions of the RDF Liberation Cup in football category-File
Football

RG, Military Police square off in RDF Liberation Cup quarterfinals

Friday, May 24, 2024
A group of suspects who ran a fraudulent scheme to steal money from people through mobile money. They were paraded at RIB headquarters. File
Crime

Are mobile phone, online scammers getting more sophisticated?

Friday, May 24, 2024
Participants pose for a group photo at a one day workshop in Kigali on May 22. Dan Gatsinzi
Featured

FEATURED: Recognizing Women's Distinct and Critical Role in Peacekeeping and in Preventing the Recruitment and Use of Children in Armed Violence

Friday, May 24, 2024
Minister of Infrastructure Jimmy Gasore, speaks a panel discussion during the eleventh National Security Symposium 2024, on May 23. Courtesy
Infrastructure

Generating sufficient energy to power national development a high priority – Rwandan minister says at security conference

Thursday, May 23, 2024
Delegates follow a presentation during the ongoing National Security Symposium 2024, in Kigali on Wednesday, May 22. Courtesy
Security

Youth radicalisation, violent extremism can be countered if African govts care – experts

Thursday, May 23, 2024
The Secretary General of Rwanda’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), Maj Gen Joseph Nzabamwita delivers his remarks during the National Security Symposium in Kigali on May 22. Courtesy
Security

Gen Nzabamwita makes case for visa-free African migration

Thursday, May 23, 2024
Minister of Defence Juvenal Marizamunda delivers his remarks as he opened the 11th National Security Symposium, jointly organised by Rwanda Defence Force Command and Staff College (RDFCSC) and the University of Rwanda (UR), in Kigali, on Wednesday, May 22.
Security

Contemporary security issues on agenda as National Security Symposium 2024 starts

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye. The CNDD-FDD's purpose in closing the border with Rwanda and sending soldiers and militiamen to DR Congo is no longer to be hidden.

It’s time the world stopped tiptoeing around Burundi’s primitive politics

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
The hospital was founded to address the gaps in the provision of eye care services in Rwanda. Photos by Christianne Murengerantwari for The New Times
Society

Mashariki synergy: How a partnership between a Rwandan and Kenyan doctor birthed an eye hospital

Monday, May 20, 2024
President Paul Kagame poses for a photo with a delegation from the Royal College of Defence studies of the UK, in Village Urugwiro on Saturday, May 18. Photo by Village Urugwiro
Security

Kagame, UK Royal College of Defence delegation discuss Rwanda’s history

Saturday, May 18, 2024
Brig Gen Patrick Karuretwa, the head of RDF’s international military cooperation department, and Brig Gen Fabien Kuzniak, the head of the French military’s southern bilateral cooperation department, exchange documents, in Paris, on May 16. Their respective delegations agreed on a new roadmap that will guide bilateral cooperation between the two nations until 2025.
Rwanda

Rwanda, France agree on new defence cooperation roadmap

Friday, May 17, 2024