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Workers on duty during Kigali Infrastructure Project (KIP) that consists of construction roads totaling more than 215 km, which was hindered by funding shortages. Craish Bahizi
Infrastructure

City of Kigali vows to fast-track major road project after budget constraints

Tuesday, May 07, 2024
The government has confirmed that the United Kingdom sent its first asylum seeker to Rwanda on Monday, April 29. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Rwanda

Rwanda receives first UK migrant under new voluntary scheme

Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Rwanda Boxing Federation President Vick Kalisa exchanges documents with Ntoudi Mouyelo after signing the MoU in Kigali. Igihe

Carlos Takam to open boxing academy in Rwanda

Saturday, April 27, 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
The United Kingdom’s upper house of parliament, on Tuesday, April 23, approved a government bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Courtesy
International

House of Lords passes UK-Rwanda migration agreement

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Delegates during FIFA General Assembly at BK Arena in Kigali on March 16, 2023. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Tourism

How to harness Rwanda’s MICE tourism

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that the UK-Rwanda migration deal will finally get operational within a period of 10 to 12 weeks. Courtesy
Rwanda

UK migrants to start coming to Rwanda within 3 months – British PM

Monday, April 22, 2024
Mourners observe a moment of silence to pay tribute to victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi in New Zealand on Saturday, April 20
Kwibuka

The Genocide against the Tutsi was no accident - New Zealand Governor-General

Monday, April 22, 2024
Rwanda’s High Commissioner to the UK, Johnston Busingye, lights a candle in remembrance of the innocent lives lost during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Kwibuka

Kwibuka: Busingye urges UK to give justice to Genocide survivors

Thursday, April 11, 2024
Flags of the Commonwealth member states hoisted in Kigali during the CHOGM in June 2022. Photo by Craish BAHIZI
Rwanda

Rwanda to host Commonwealth architects’ association conference

Monday, April 08, 2024
Moussa Faki Mahamat, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, delivers his remarks at the 30th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Kigali on Sunday, April 7. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza for The New Times
Kwibuka

Kwibuka: World leaders, celebrities share messages of solidarity

Sunday, April 07, 2024
The President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame lit the Flame of Remembrance at Kigali Genocide Memorial as Rwanda marked the 30th Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi on Sunday, April 7. The Flame of Remembrance that was lit, will burn for the next 100 days in commemoration of those lost. Photo by Village Urugwiro

PHOTOS: Rwanda marks Kwibuka 30

Sunday, April 07, 2024