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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
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Security

PHOTOS: UK Royal College of Defence Studies visits to learn from Rwanda Peace Academy

Friday, May 17, 2024
Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and Ministry of Health medical personnel attend to a patient during the launch of the nationwide programme for treating patients with cataracts, at Rutongo District Hospital in Rulindo District, on Thursday, May 16.
Health

PHOTOS: RDF, Ministry of Health launch nationwide campaign to treat over 5,000 cataracts patients

Thursday, May 16, 2024
National Electoral Commission volunteers during the previous elections in 2017. On Friday, May 17, NEC will officially start receiving candidature submissions. Sam Ngendahimana
Elections

Explainer: What are the requirements for presidential candidates?

Thursday, May 16, 2024
APR BBC squad who played during the Basketball Africa League (BAL) Sahara conference in Dakar, Senegal, from May 4-12. Courtesy
Basketball

BAL 2024: Why did APR crumble?

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Newly commissioned officer cadets during a parade at Rwanda Military Academy in Gako on Monday, April 15. The government is planning to establish Rwanda’s first national defence university. Photo: Dan Gatsinzi.
Education

Plan for Rwanda’s first defence university underway, says minister

Tuesday, May 14, 2024