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PM Justin Nsengiyumva represented President Paul Kagame at the 21st Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Angola on Sunday, August 30.
Rwanda

Address root causes before conflicts escalate, PM tells AU summit

Sunday, August 30, 2026
President Masisi (right) and Kigali Dusengiyumva (second right) and other officials during the Umuganda session. Photos by Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

Former Botswana president joins Kigali residents for Umuganda

Saturday, August 29, 2026
King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, the Omukama of Tooro Kingdom in Uganda, has died at the age of 34.Courtesy

Who was King Oyo, the late monarch of Uganda's Tooro Kingdom

Friday, August 28, 2026
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Football

Yaya Touré makes history as first African coach to reach Champions League group-stage

Friday, August 28, 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.

60 years after colonialism, Africa eyes for a mindset reset

Wednesday, August 26, 2026
(L-R) Former South African President Thabo Mbeki, President Paul Kagame , Ghana’s Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, at a presidential panel.
Politics

Africa must break cycle of failed governance, leaders say

Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Members of the genocidial group FDLR in eastern DR Congo. Courtesy
Editorial

The FDLR: three decades of reinvention and regional insecurity

Monday, August 24, 2026
Some of the more than 80,000 pilgrims from around the world attend the celebration of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kibeho, Nyaruguru District, on Saturday, August 15. Courtesy

Kibeho 15th August: Faith was ready, but were the services?

Friday, August 21, 2026
Some of the more than 80,000 pilgrims from around the world attend the celebration of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kibeho, Nyaruguru District, on Saturday, August 15. Courtesy
Rwanda

Kibeho 15th August: Faith was ready, but were the services? 

Thursday, August 20, 2026
Photographs of former Rwandan leaders from the period of the Genocide against the Tutsi, archived at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Photo by Kellya Keza.

Double genocide narrative distort Rwanda's history and memory

Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Legendary Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo has become the first African musician to receive a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Courtesy
Music

Angélique Kidjo becomes first African black artist on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Wednesday, August 19, 2026
President Évariste Ndayishimiye currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the African Union for 2026. Courtesy

When rhetoric tests responsibility: Burundi, Rwanda and the burden of African Union leadership

Tuesday, August 18, 2026