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A flooded wetland at Masaka in Kicukiro District in April 2023. Courtesy
Environment

Govt pitches $86m climate disaster financing plan

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
A woman breastfeeding her baby. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Rwanda has remained below 2 percent over the past decade, rising slightly to 1.1 percent from 0.9 percent in the previous year.
Health

Mother-to-child HIV transmission remains below 2%

Wednesday, July 01, 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
Medical experts caution that prolonged hospital stays and extensive diagnostic investigations are not always necessary. File.
Health

Questions mount over hospital admissions, prescriptions and rising healthcare costs

Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The New Times
Featured

Isoko y’Ubuzima brings clean water, sanitation to over 369,000 Rwandans

Saturday, June 27, 2026
Z listens intently as the trial judges find him guilty of genocide and extermination, ICTR, 18 December 2008. courtesy of UNICTR
Crime

Protais Zigiranyirazo: The rise and fall of ‘Monsieur Z’ - a cautionary tale of greed and power

Friday, June 26, 2026
A view of the ongoing construction of a new track in Rebero, near Canal Olympia, that is already underway, on Wednesday, June 24. Photo by Dylan Mugenda

Kigali to add running tracks in Rebero, Nyamirambo

Friday, June 26, 2026
A pig farmer carries package delivered by Zipline. The firm has helped improve pig farming through drone-facilitated artificial insemination.
Featured

Visible from space: New studies show Zipline’s expanding impact beyond healthcare

Friday, June 26, 2026
DR Congo and Uganda are countries that declared Ebola outbreak. Courtesy

The missing link in building public trust amid epidemic threats

Thursday, June 25, 2026
Providence Umurungi, Rwanda's National Commission for Human Rights Chairperson delivers his remarks at the opening of the Fourth Conference of the African National Preventive Mechanisms Network in Kigali, on Wednesday, June 24.
Women

Experts urge detention reforms to protect women, children

Thursday, June 25, 2026