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Members of Parliament during a Plenary Session. Courtesy
Africa

Rwandan MPs ask DR Congo to disarm FDLR, address historical grievances

Thursday, June 06, 2024
An African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson election will be held in February 2025 to choose the fifth Commission Chair to succeed incumbent Chairperson Moussa Faki.
Africa

Experts highlight potential focus areas as AU embarks on leadership elections

Saturday, June 01, 2024
Aerial view of the newly revamped Amahoro stadium in Remera Kigali. According to the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey for 2023, Rwanda’s transparency score increased from 45 in 2021 to 50 in 2023.
Rwanda

Rwanda among most improved in global rankings on budget accountability

Thursday, May 30, 2024
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
South Sudanese rebel opposition groups leaders and other officials involved in South Sudan's Tumaini Initiative peace talks pose for a picture after a signing ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya on May 16, 2024. Net photo
Africa

South Sudan, rebel groups sign peace deal

Friday, May 17, 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
A group of healthcare professionals at King Faisal Hospital (KFH), one of the largest hospitals in Rwanda, poses for the camera at the hospital in December 2022. PHOTO BY KFH

Rwanda's ‘4x4 Reform’ signals a transformative shift in healthcare

Thursday, May 02, 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
Genocide convict Jean Baptiste Gatete, the former Bourgmestre of Murambi, was one of local leaders who played their role in planning and executing Genocide against the Tutsi
Rwanda

Role of local authorities in the planning and execution of genocide against the Tutsi between October 1990 and March 1994

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
University of Rwanda and Swedish researchers pose for a group photo with Genocide survivors and perpetrators who live peacefully in the same village in Mayange Sector, Bugesera District, on Monday, April 22. Photo: Emmanuel Dushimimana.
Featured

FEATURED - Bugesera: UR, Swedish researchers visit reconciliation village

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Dr Sabin Nsanzimana (R), the Rwandan Minister of Health, and Minata Samate Cessouma, the AU Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs, and Social Development, shake hands after signing a host agreement for the African Medicines Agency (AMA) in Kigali in June 2023. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza

Rwanda hosting AMA headquarters could be a game-changer for health in Africa

Tuesday, April 23, 2024