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FEATURED: Reducing maternal deaths through mobile mentorship
Although Rwanda’s maternal mortality rate dropped to 203 per 100,000 live births in the last five years, challenges around the shortage of competent healthcare providers and lack... → Read More
Victims of ‘Abacengezi’ BRALIRWA bus attack remembered 25 years on
Twenty five years ago on January 19, a group of 74 employees of BRALIRWA, Rwanda’s largest brewer and soft beverage company, were on a company bus going to work the morning shift... → Read More
Unpaid care work to be valued in divorce settlement cases
If a new bill on family eventually sails through parliament, unpaid care work will soon be valued in divorce settlement cases, after a study found that Rwandan women spend... → Read More
Women’s power, working rights skyrocketed in 2022
2022 has definitely been the year for Rwandan women in all, or at least most of the aspects. The main highlights of the year include improved working conditions, breaking glass... → Read More
Sundays are for church and sports in Kigali
Waking up early on the weekends is not for the fainthearted. When my alarm went off at 6:20 AM, I thought to myself that maybe, I should just not go. It was just sports, and... → Read More
Central bank rejects move to ban third party cheques
The Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda, John Rwangombwa has dismissed claims that there is a ban on third party cheques after a cross section of people claimed their banks... → Read More
Banyamulenge make fresh call for justice over Gatumba massacre
Friday August 13, 2004, started like any other day for then 16-year-old Shoni Kalala who was living in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, together with his parents and three brothers. He had played football earlier with his friends, but got really tired and went back home (the family’s tent) earlier than usual so he could sleep early. Kalala’s father liked spending nights outside their tent, which… → Read More
Kigalians salute Inkotanyi in liberation concert
How to celebrate Liberation day in style? Trust young people in Kigali to dress militarily- with boots too, and throw around salutes cheerfully as they march when the song ‘Sisi Wenyewe’ is played. The mood at Massamba Intore’s Inkotanyi concert, which is an annual celebration of the liberators of the country through music and dance, only proves that Kigalians are invested in showing up and… → Read More
Picnics: Kigalians finally enjoying their green?
Heading to ‘Utakah,’ one of the leading local picnic spots is not for the fainthearted! It can make you have second thoughts about bothering your long weekend sleeps or movies. The potholed dusty road on the left side of the Adventist University in Masoro is unbearable. But trust me when I say that you would even walk for hours just to have a memorable day, given how promising the spot’s… → Read More
Can Commonwealth countries eradicate malaria by 2030?
Although malaria is a preventable and curable disease when diagnosed and treated promptly and correctly, it continues to be a major public health threat. It has disproportionately spiked mortality in low-resource communities worldwide, with Africa losing more people to it, according to the World Malaria Report. In 2020, an estimated 241 million people had malaria, and 627,000 of them died, an… → Read More
DRC soldier crosses border to Rwanda, shoots and injures two Rwandan Police officers
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has continued acts of aggression against Rwanda with the latest incident taking place in Rubavu District on the morning of Friday, June 17. The incident involved an armed Congolese soldier crossing the DRC-Rwanda border in Rubavu and indiscriminately started firing shots on the Rwandan side, leaving two Rwandan police officers injured. The DRC soldier who… → Read More
FEATURED: Malawi, Ethiopia delegates acquire lessons from Rwanda’s digitaltransformation
A team of 20 delegates from Malawi and Ethiopia came for a three-day study tour in Rwanda, where among other things; exchanged ideas in the field of digitalisation of the economy and government services. This tour was under a programme by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s least developed countries, which invests in creating… → Read More
Imigongo: The evolution of Rwanda’s traditional designs
Since 2016, Giselle Benimana has maintained the same morning routine. She wakes up to do work the uninitiated may deem ‘disgusting,’ but not to her. She dips her hands in a bucket of cow dung in which she douses ash to minimize the smell. She then keeps using the mixture to design frames over the lines she has drawn in equal patterns, all with her hands. She moves her fingers effortlessly,… → Read More
Genocide kingpin Mpiranya confirmed dead, another fugitive arrested, more about last week
As CHOGM 2022 is just round the corner, Clementine Mukeka, the head of CHOGM 2022 taskforce attended The Prince of Wales’ SMI (Sustainable Markets Initiative) dinner at Buckingham Palace on May 11, in preparation of the meeting where global leaders will agree on actions to promote sustainable and people-centered development. Prince Charles, who is also the reigning monarch in the UK, will… → Read More
Terminally ill elderly Genocide survivors get palliative care room
Leocadie, in her nineties, was living alone and everyone in her community wondered how she was surviving. She would get out of the house in the morning and head to her gate (it would take her hours) where she would ignite her three-stone stove and sleep next to it for the rest of the day. Her clothes were in tatters, owing to the burning sparks; her neighbours were worried that the fire would… → Read More
Genocide victim to wife: Swear to me that you will never hurt our children
Meraniya, visually impaired and in her 70s, was still grieving all her children, spouse and siblings, among other relatives she lost during the Genocide, two decades later. Without any alive relative except a distant grandson whom no one knew where he lived, she was struggling to even keep alive. Life was hard, given the fact that she was blind and had almost no one to care for her, except other… → Read More
Kagame urges harmonisation of Africa’s data governance landscape
President Kagame has suggested three ways in which strong partnerships could be harnessed to accelerate digital transformation in Africa. Kagame who was presiding over the launch of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in Kigali on Thursday said that one such way is by stimulating entrepreneurship through increased investments in the right skills and capacity. Other ways, he… → Read More
Why Kagame’s gift to Muhoozi is more than just cows
Between the year 1091 and 1124, King Gihanga Ngomijana, known as the founding father of Rwanda went hunting. He killed an animal called “Impwi”- a specie from the antelope family living in high altitude forests – and dried its hide. His wives; Nyamususa and Nyirampirangwe fought to have the hide when the former’s daughter, Nyirarucyaba came to rescue her. She took a stick that had been used to… → Read More
Ndimbati’s case takes new twist as RIB submits file to prosecution
While Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) on Friday, March 11, confirmed popular actor Jean-Bosco Uwihoreye, commonly known as Ndimbati, was still in their custody after he was arrested over charges of defilement, some new twists to the case seem to have emerged even before the case goes to court. Believed to be the victim, a lady identified as Firdaus Kabahizi had appeared in an interview on a… → Read More
Gatuna border fully reopens for ordinary passengers after 3 years
The border between Rwanda and Uganda – Gatuna Border Post – finally opens after three years of closure on Monday March 7, paving way for traffic across the border located in Gicumbi District. The reopening was part of the implementation of a directive by the cabinet issued on Friday March 4, that all land borders linking Rwanda to neighbouring countries would reopen on Monday. All land borders… → Read More