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One of over 6,000 houses damaged by disasters in Rubavu District in Rwanda in May, 2023. The disasters also claimed 135 lives, livestock, and many hectares of plantations were washed away. File photo
Environment

EAC to approach COP28 as bloc with one voice, recommits to food security

Saturday, November 25, 2023
Left to right: Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente representing Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame; Tanzanian President Suluhu Samia, Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye, and EAC Secretary General Peter Mathuki, at the 23rd Ordinary Summit of the EAC Heads of State which took place on November 24, 2023, in Arusha, Tanzania. (Courtesy).
Africa

EAC Heads of State adopt bloc’s sustainable financing, urge sanctions against defaulting partner states

Saturday, November 25, 2023
Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye hands over EAC chairmanship to South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, on November 24. in Arusha Tanzania. Photo Courtesy
Africa

South Sudan’s Salva Kiir is new EAC chair

Friday, November 24, 2023
EAC Secretary General Peter Mathuki (R) chats with the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (C), and Tanzanian President Suluhu Samia, on November 24, 2023, in Arusha (Courtesy photo).
Africa

Somalia joins East African Community

Friday, November 24, 2023
EALA MPs during a plenary session on November 8, 2023, in Arusha, Tanzania, the headquarters of the EAC. The assembly is in Kigali in line with the rotational sittings principle in the EAC Partner States’ capitals to bring the community closer to the people. Courtesy photo
Africa

EALA: What are the bills, motions regional lawmakers plan to discuss in Kigali?

Friday, November 24, 2023
Passengers board a RwandAir's plane at Kigali International Airport. Kagame recently said ''Any African can get on a plane to Rwanda whenever they wish and will not pay a thing to enter our country.” File
Aviation

Three things to know about Rwanda’s visa-free policy

Wednesday, November 15, 2023
EAC Secretary-General Dr Peter Mathuki (left) converses with Comoros President Azali Assoumani, who is also the African Union Chairperson, on the sidelines of the Africa Investment Forum in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 8. PHOTO: POOL
Africa

Mathuki: Somalia could join EAC this month

Friday, November 10, 2023
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir. PHOTO: PCS
Africa

South Sudan set to take EAC chairmanship

Thursday, November 09, 2023
Congolese refugees at Kigeme Refugee Camp in Nyamagabe district protest against the genocidal violence committed against Congolese Tutsi in eastern DR Congo, on December 12.2022. Willy Mucyo
Africa

How DR Congo chose to externalize its internal problems, scapegoat Rwanda

Wednesday, November 08, 2023
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Vincent Biruta speaks at the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) meeting in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Courtesy
Africa

Biruta refutes DR Congo’s "baseless accusations" at Francophonie summit

Tuesday, November 07, 2023
President Paul Kagame meets with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken in Kigali, on August 11, 2022. Kagame and Blinken, on Monday, November 6, held a productive call on the deterioration of the security situation in the East of DR Congo. PHOTO BY VILLAGE URUGWIRO
Security

DR Congo crisis: Kagame, Blinken discuss deteriorating security situation

Monday, November 06, 2023
Militiamen of the FDLR, a genocidal group that is among others that are destabilising DR Congo. A SADC summit held on Saturday discussed the strategy of deployment by SADC states into eastern DR Congo for peace.
Africa

SADC leaders discuss military deployment in DR Congo

Sunday, November 05, 2023