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Minister of Trade and Industry Antoine-Marie Kajangwe (R) and Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi during the signing ceremony on Monday, June 29. Courtesy
Editorial

Rwanda-Kenya fuel import deal comes at right time

Friday, July 03, 2026
Kigali Convention Centre at Kimihurura. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

The "single story" of Rwanda's rise

Thursday, July 02, 2026
Every year, thousands of African students leave Nairobi, Kigali, Lagos, Accra and Kampala, for universities across Europe and North America.

Black fatigue beyond the Diaspora: The hidden journey of African students abroad

Thursday, July 02, 2026
Members of the FDLR genocidal group captured by M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo were handed to Rwandan authorities in Rubavu District on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Photo by Germain Nsanzimana

My weird feeling about U.S. sanctions against Rwandan individuals and entities

Thursday, July 02, 2026
The City of Kigali's neighbourhood road cost-sharing programme has become one of Rwanda's most innovative urban development initiatives. Photo by Craish BAHIZI

Citizen-led roads are changing Kigali one neighbourhood at a time

Thursday, July 02, 2026
A waiter attends to a client at a bar-resto in Kigali.

Customer experience isn't a department. It's your business model

Thursday, July 02, 2026
Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) Director General Juliet Kabera addresses members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, National Unity and Security on Tuesday, June 30. Courtesy
Editorial

Planned housing is no longer optional

Thursday, July 02, 2026
US President Donald Trump, President Paul Kagame and DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi sign the Washington Accord in Washington D.C. on December 4, 2025. Photo by Village Urugwiro

When sanctions become strategy: The limits of economic pressure in eastern DR Congo

Wednesday, July 01, 2026
An identity card used before the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi to indicate the ethnic identity of Rwandans. The historical documentation project at the Commune Rouge Genocide Memorial is nearing completion
Editorial

Preserving the truth about Genocide cannot wait

Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Africa Hugh Masekela

The Africa Hugh Masekela sang about

Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Interahamwe during a training under the inspection of French Army in 1990s. The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was driven by decades of systematically developed ideological propaganda.

The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was driven by ideological propaganda

Wednesday, July 01, 2026
A Cabinet meeting on Monday, June 8, approved the establishment of a National Artificial Intelligence Agency, which will be Rwanda’s first institution dedicated to AI. Courtesy

A Rwandan address on a foreign mind

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Social media is not the enemy of love. But when it becomes the place where young people learn what love should look like, it distorts how they understand commitment before a real relationship begins.

When social media turns love into performance

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Work-related stress is becoming an increasingly heavy burden for many men. internet

Work pressure and its strain on men’s mental health

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Trucks transport good under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). File

If Africa came shopping tomorrow, would you deliver?

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Clients at BPR Bank Rwanda Nyabugogo branch. File
Editorial

Unlock funding for women feeding the nation

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
A mobile Money agent counts the money while on duty in Kigali. For a great many Rwandans, income does not flow steadily; it comes in waves. File

How to budget when your income comes in waves

Monday, June 29, 2026
DR Congo President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi during the signing of Washington Accords. File

Who sanctions the sanctioners? The missing accountability in international affairs

Monday, June 29, 2026
Ecofleet's buses that operate in public transport in Kigali. Courtesy
Editorial

Kigali’s bus reforms face their real test

Monday, June 29, 2026
Some of the homes belonging to Tutsi residents that were burned by FDLR genocidal group members and FARDC soldiers during clashes with M23 rebels in Nturo Village, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. COURTESY

Can the ‘madman theory’ oust the Tutsi from their historical homelands?

Monday, June 29, 2026