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The EAC passport in its various forms The immigration and emigration directorate announced Thursday that Rwandan passport holders have less than a year to use them. Passports obtained before June 27, 2019, will no longer be valid after June 28 next year. Instead Rwandan travellers falling in this time bracket…

Most of the property up for sale is located in Kigali city center Government body charged with keeping property said to be abandoned, has put up notice intending to sell some of them located in Kigali. The Kigali branch of the Commission in charge of Abandoned Property, in a notice…

The Education Ministry has had to withdraw another book for early primary school level after it was heavily shamed on social media. The latest controversy over Kinyarwanda books comes in the wake a new surprising change of government’s language policy. In less than a year, government has announced a change…

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter does not see Africa hosting the Fifa World Cup anytime soon, and claimed that his support for the continent’s 2010 tournament hosting rights led to him being forced out of the Zurich-based organisation. After 17 years at the helm of Fifa, the Swiss football administrator…

Scientists in Rwanda have discovered a drug-resistant strain of the parasite that causes malaria, a development that will pose a threat to the country’s fight against the disease. The study was done by National Malaria Control Program of the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, the…

Daughter of moneyed businessman Nkubili Alfred (LEFT), Mucyo Apollo with his Dad former PM Dr Pierre Damien Habumuremyi with mother, and Shadari and her sister Elizabeth with their Dad Brig Gen (Rtd) Frank Rusagara November 7 last year, the global audience was treated to a rare tirade over a court…

Inside the Lower Chamber of Deputies. MPs have passed their own amendments to the health insurance act An amendment brought by the Finance and Economic Planning Ministry seeking to introduced heavy fines on people who delay to make their mandatory health insurance contributions, did not pass through Parliament. On July…

Worth more than a billion dollars, the Moto industry employs tens of thousands and feeds thousands more. It remains to be seen how the new payment scheme will impact the individual riders It seems, finally, the technology Kigalians have been hearing about since early last year is here, though quite…

At the Gitagata Rehabilitation Center in Bugesera district, you find very young children, who would have been street kids. Here, the authorities hope to transform them into useful citizens Rehabilitation or transit centers are spread across different parts of Rwanda. As per official narrative, transit centers is where delinquent youths…

With permanent structures unlike other refugee camps, the Mahama camp for Burundians in eastern Rwanda, was put in place for the long term Government of Rwanda issued a statement late Monday evening in reaction to viral letter by Burundian refugees seeking to return home – after more than five years…

Over the weekend, Burundi President Gen Evariste Ndayishimiye (in hat) with First Lady led nation in celebrations to mark Communal Day, a calendar event meant for all elites to return to their villages A group of Burgundian refugees in Rwanda have written letter to Burundi President Gen Evariste Ndayishimiye asking…

March 11, 2020: In Kirehe District, eastern province, President Kagame inaugurates the Nasho Solar-powered Irrigation Project funded by the billionaire Howard G. Buffett’s Foundation. The project includes pivot irrigation systems serving 2099 small scale farmers, a 3.3 Mw solar power plant & model village of 144 houses. The project is…

At the time, the white farmers lost everything overnight and became beggars in a country they had called home for ages Zimbabwe’s government signed an agreement Wednesday worth $3.5 billion to compensate white farmers who were evicted from their land during a controversial and often violent land redistribution program in…

Widow Uwimbabazi Irene (R) is recovering at the Byimana Health Center after she was nearly drowned by people she identified. The goon were very likely hired by a local businessman who facing prosecution for murdering Uwimbabazi’s husband A mother of four is hospitalized in Southern Rwanda after hired goons nearly…

CLOCKWISE: Nadia Kabalira, Dr Jean Damascene Bizimana, Oliver Nduhungirehe and Tom Ndahiro The executive secretary of Rwanda’s anti-genocide commission and a former minister are among a group of 19 individuals facing prosecution in Belgium in case filed by Rwandan exiles. The exiles, under the umbrella platform JAMBO asbl, which the…

Nyirangaruye Clarisse sits helpless amidst a gang of men who were battering her. She has since developed mental issues A woman whose traumatic beating by group of local officials and security personnel in northern Rwanda which caused national outrage, will have to wait much longer for justice. In May, a…

Italian charities MLFM and AVSI both partnered for multimillion water project in a deeply rural region of Gicumbi district. When the NGOs left, the local company that took over the project ran it down completely Thousands of homes in several sectors in Northern Rwanda have not had clean water for…

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On June 30, the selection committee in charge of submitting candidates for the most important job at the International Criminal Court – the Prosecutor – has released a short-list of four names. None of the “big shots” are among them. It caused shock, surprise, concern, hope, and all sorts of…

Dr Kayumba Christopher, co-founder of The Chronicles and Senior Lecturer at School of Journalism and Communication, University of Rwanda In a virtual court session this Friday, prosecution sought for the maximum possible jail sentence for Dr Christopher Kayumba in a case where he denied all the charges. Kayumba, co-founder of…

Dr Akinwumi Adesina, AfDB President from Nigeria U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday welcomed the African Development Bank’s decision to appoint former Irish President Mary Robinson to lead an independent probe of a report that cleared the bank’s chief of wrongdoing. Mnuchin said undertaking an independent review was fully…

A photo from family album deceased Nzayisenga John. By going to local forest to cut wood, he hoped to bring home money, instead he returned battered, and died later – likely from wounds sustained An extended family in Ruhango district, Southern Rwanda, is grieving for a father of four with…

Local reporters struggle for the best spot at an outdoor media briefing Two government bodies that oversee the media sector in Rwanda have been allocated a combined Rwf 338.8m in the new budget to fulfill that mandate. The agencies are the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) and the Media High Council…

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi meets Belgian King Phillipe last year For the first time in Belgium’s history, a reigning king has expressed regret for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a letter to…

Decades of oil drilling in West Kordofan province was linked to water contamination, environmental changes and health effects for citizens. The oil story in Sudan is one of controversy, a messy tale of money, conflict and power enmeshed in the country’s decades-long conflict.  A new investigation by InfoNile reveals the…

Newly elected Burundi President Gen Evariste Ndayishimiye stands next Tanzania Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa (R) as the latter spoke at funeral of late leader Pierre Nkurunziza Burundi’s accession into the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has received rare backing from the bloc’s major member, Tanzania. The country’s Prime Minister Kassim…

Nicholas Kaganzi A low-level official accused of stealing millions of Francs from the coffers of the Rwanda Development Board’s (RDB) tourism revenue account, was surprisingly set free by a court. The information about the released suspected was revealed this Friday by President Paul Kagame at a ruling RPF party executive…

Reclusive industrialist Mironko François Xavier Industrialist Mironko Francois Xavier is fed up, at least going by his unusual public outburst – alleging a plot involving government agencies to destroy him. For starters, Mironko is a well-known household name in Rwanda. He owns Mironko Plastics Industries, maker of most of the…

A graduation at the University of Rwanda. Parents will no longer be worried their children won’t go to university Cabinet has approved a comprehensive review of the social economic categories that made it impossible for children from supposed “rich” families to access government university scholarships. Known as “Ubudehe”, they were…

The map of Rwanda showing the flow of Nyabarongo River from the west to north, down south to Lake Rweru There is a standard for drinking water in Rwanda recommended by the Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RSB). However, chemicals being pumped into Rwanda’s single biggest river, Nyabarongo, may be slowly…