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6,242 plots were identified in areas designated for other uses or which were not suitable for housing, such as wetlands, forests, high-risk zones, areas beneath high-voltage power lines, and sewage pipe corridors.File
Environment

Kigali: Over 6,000 properties located in wetlands, other inappropriate areas

Thursday, May 08, 2025
Rugezi Marsh, Northern Province, Rwanda - November 2023: Dr. Olivier Nsengimana during the Rugezi Biodiversity Survey. Photo by James Rooney/National Geographic.
Environment

Rwandan vet wins Rwf190m award for protecting grey crowned cranes

Friday, May 02, 2025
Former members of FDLR undergo a civic training at Mutobo Demobilisation Centre, in Musanze District in the Northern Province on Wednesday, April 30. Photos by Craish Bahizi
Crime

Stolen childhoods: How FDLR recruits children and arms them with hate

Friday, May 02, 2025
Researchers document some native trees in eastern Province. Courtesy
Environment

17 native tree species to help green Rwanda’s Eastern Province

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Some of the residential houses of Tutsi that were burned by FDLR genocidial group members and FARDC soldiers during the fighting against M23 rebels at Nturo Village in eastern DR Congo.

Enablers of DR Congo's genocidal agenda

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Equity Bank Rwanda MD Hannington Namara, UNDP Rwanda Representative Fatmata Sesay and Eastern Province Governor Pudence Rubingisa planting trees
Featured

FEATURED: Equity Bank, Nyagatare community plant 15,000 trees

Monday, March 24, 2025
Alliance fleuve Congo spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka during a press conference in Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, in January. The rebels on Monday, March 24, announced that the Congolese army coalition’s failure to withdraw its attack drones from the town of Walikale delayed the repositioning of the rebellion’s forces in the area. PHOTO BY EMMANUEL DUSHIMIMANA
Africa

DR Congo crisis: M23 rebels say Congolese army coalition stance delaying withdraw from Walikale

Monday, March 24, 2025
Alliance fleuve Congo leader Corneille Nangaa gestures during the rebel movement’s first press conference in Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, in January. The rebels on Saturday, March 22, announced a tactical withdraw from the town of Walikale in line with a unilateral ceasefire declared on February 22. PHOTO BY EMMANUEL DUSHIMIMANA
Africa

DR Congo crisis: M23 rebels pull out of Walikale

Saturday, March 22, 2025
The New Times

DR Congo’s self-deception and perilous scapegoating

Thursday, March 20, 2025
An AFC/M23 soldier on patrol in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu Province, on February 18. PHOTO BY OLIVIER MUGWIZA
Africa

DR Congo crisis: M23 rebels seize Walikale, genocidal militia’s strongholds - reports

Thursday, March 20, 2025
Rwandan oral history recounts that during and after the reign of Kizira, the father of Muntu, the population of Mazinga (now part of Akagera National Park) suffered catastrophic floods and disease outbreaks. 

Shared Ancestral: Is Rwandan Muntu the same as Ugandan Kintu?

Monday, March 17, 2025
Congolese refugees in Mahama camp in Rwanda's Eastern Province protest against killings of Banyamulenge, Hema and Tutsi people in eastern DR Congo on March 6, 2024.
International

Hundreds of experts, academics, lawyers, religious leaders, writers, artists write to UN chief over persecution of Congolese Tutsi

Sunday, March 09, 2025