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One of the residential houses damaged by bombs fired into Rwandan territory in Rubavu District from DR Congo on Monday, January 27, 2025. Photo by Germain Nsanzimana.
Editorial

There can be no lasting peace in DR Congo while FDLR remains

Thursday, September 03, 2026
The New Times

Africa’s food systems: Twenty-three years after Maputo, what has changed?

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
The death toll from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000 in Nepal. File

The worst-case scenario demands more than a warning

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
A Zipline drone delivers blood at Kabgayi Hospital. Rwanda became the first country in the world to operate a national medical drone delivery service in 2016. The drones transport blood, vaccines, and medicines.

How Rwanda turned drones into a development tool

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
Workers package bottled water on the production line at Inyange Industries Ltd .

RSSB in Inyange and Ruliba: Growing pension funds, not spending

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
Radical terraces at Green Gicumbi project in the Northern Province. File
Editorial

Protecting soil is the best defence against El Niño

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder that affects the way a person thinks, perceives and experiences the world.

Schizophrenia: Challenging myths about madness and mental health

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
MTN Rwanda CEO Monzer Ali speaks during a past event in Kigali. File

A telecom finds its footing again

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
Nelson Mandela with Kofi Annan. UN Photo

Twenty years after Kofi Annan's prophecy, Africa must answer one question whether we delivered

Tuesday, September 01, 2026
President Paul Kagame and High ranking delegates. The discussions explore how Africa can build on the dignity and solidarity of Pan-Africanism to establish Meta-Africanism as its next chapter.

The Africa We Want begins with a change of mindset

Tuesday, September 01, 2026
The New Times

The Africa food festival at AFSF is putting people at the centre of food systems

Monday, August 31, 2026
Rwandans queuing for casting their votes during the presidential elections in 2003 at Groupe Scolaire ADEPR Kimihurura in Kigali on on August 25, 2003. File

How Rwanda rebuilt its political, governance system after 1994 

Monday, August 31, 2026
Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye and his DR Congo counterpart Felix Tshisekedi during an interaction. FILE

The Great Lakes hold-up: The FDLR’s capture of Kinshasa and Bujumbura and the regional threat it poses

Monday, August 31, 2026
A view of Zimbabwe's capital city Harare.

What if we got Zimbabwe wrong?

Monday, August 31, 2026
DR Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi. File

Regional Conflict, Belgian castles and the tyranny of conscience-less pleasure

Monday, August 31, 2026
Minister of Education Joseph Nsengimana launches exams on Tuesday, July 7. 7,188 primary school learners will have to retake the 2025-26 Primary Leaving Examinations after investigations uncovered mass cheating.
Editorial

All involved in exam cheating scandal must fully account

Monday, August 31, 2026
A view of Uruhimbi in National museum in Huye. For centuries, Rwandans have shared a common culture and history, rich with unique relics and cultural imprints closely connected to their natural surroundings

Underground legacy: Integrating heritage into Rwandan development

Monday, August 31, 2026
An artist's impession of new rehousing project in Kabuhunde village, Kagugu Cell, Kinyinya Sector of Gasabo District. Courtesy

Kabuhunde rehousing project is an open invitation to think bigger

Monday, August 31, 2026
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), smallholders working up to 10 hectares manage roughly 80 percent of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Courtesy

Until farmers can sell what they grow, Africa’s Food System will not transform

Friday, August 28, 2026
Participants during an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) training in Huye District on June 29, 2026. Courtesy

Africa’s next AMR battle is turning ambition into action

Friday, August 28, 2026