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Downtown Kigali, which is now on total lockdown like all parts of the country The International Monetary Fund on Thursday late night gave an urgent lifeline to Rwanda to help reduce impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund approved the disbursement of US$109.4 million (Rwf 103billion) to be drawn under…

As the coronavirus is spreading in United States and most Chinese cities have reported no more new cases, some Chinese parents are paying tens of thousands of dollars for private jets to get their children out of the US and back to China because of the coronavirus pandemic. Since the…

Here is the letter sent to all State Prosecutors this Wednesday April 1, giving them benchmarks to base on to prepare lists of suspects that will be released as part of Government’s coronavirus control measures All state prosecutors across Rwanda have been asked to compile lists of suspects that can…

Inside the warehouse in Kicukiro district where private companies are delivering food and sanitary supplies Private companies are lining up to deliver tons of food and sanitary supplies which will be distributed to vulnerable families as country enters week 2 of the COVID-19 lockdown. A call was sent out last…

On the other side, separated by a small portion of Lake Kivu, is Bukavu town in DR Congo New control measures against spread of the COVID-19 virus may have to be introduced in Rwanda’s Rusizi district after confirmation of two cases just across the border in DR Congo. Congo’s biomedical…

Responding to government advisory, a trader in Byangabo center located in Musanze district, paint stand pointa for clients to enforce the recommended social distance The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has introduced a “Policy Tracker” for policies of governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic. This policy tracker summarizes the key economic responses…

The route displayed on the map is the main highway connecting Rubavu district in western province, to Huye district in southern province. Driving takes about 4hrs, while it could take you nearly two days walk A group of men who were working more than 250km away from their homes did…

Faustina Tay’s body was discovered in a car park under her employers’ fourth-storey home in Beirut. Faustina Tay, pictured here on her way to Lebanon, was found dead on March 14 in southern Beirut [Courtesy of Demanya family] Beirut, Lebanon – On the morning of March 13, Faustina Tay sent…

Bernard Ntaganda has defiantly remained in the country as others have fled The opposition politician Bernard Ntaganda whose party was usurped, and now operates a single-face platform, says government’s interventions to counter spread of COVID-19 virus will leave people dying from hunger. Government on Saturday ordered a total lockdown of…

Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy. The Caribbean island has sent its “armies of white robes” to disaster sites around…

Inspectors were walking into random shops and those found with unusual prices have been fined At least 24 traders in different parts of Kigali are now counting losses following fines imposed by Trade Ministry. Earlier in the week, the ministry issued warning against any attempts by traders to increase prices…

Inside a market in Kigali The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has issued a raft of measures to deal with the an already existing impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the local economy. Government ordered suspension, ban or reorganization of different activities in the country during the past weekend.…

Five people acquitted years ago by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda are still waiting to find a host country. One of them for 16 years. This situation looks unlikely to change any time soon, for them and for four convicts who have served their sentences and share their containment,…

Connor Reed spoke to Sky News Connor Reed was working in China late last year when he caught the virus that would come to be known as COVID-19. The 25-year-old from Llandudno in North Wales (Britain), was working at a school in the Chinese city of Wuhan when he began…

The advisory posted on the website of the French embassy in Kigali The French embassy in Kigali has advised French tourists in Rwanda to leave as soon as possible, part of COVID-19 control measures. The embassy, in travel advisory posted on its website, says in anticipation of possible closure of…

Most of those being rounded up by DRC security crackdown are women and children On March 7, 2018, Rwandan border officials at the Ruzisi border with DR Congo’s Bukavu town began seeing streams of desperate people with their belongings. They were mainly woman, children and elderly. It took several hours…

The training of the interahamwe youths continued being done in a joint operation by Rwandan and French military officers. Here in 1994, Rwanda — A group of Rwandan recruits carrying model rifles march down a road. — (Photo by Peter Turnley/CORBIS) On March 18, 1991, the head of the intelligence…

The new group claims to be based in Kalehe territory of DRC’s South Kivu province A group calling itself FIAR (FORCE IMPARTIALE POUR L’AVENIR DU RWANDA – FIAR) has been established in DR Congo region where another Rwandan rebel force was nearly decimated. The leaders of the new group are…

The Mechanism charged with residual tasks of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) lies outside the Tanzanian town of Arusha, and seemingly outside of time. With its annual budget of 40 million dollars and 200 employees, it is charged with hunting the last eight fugitives accused of participating in…

The US government’s 2019 human rights report on Rwanda says social media accounts paid for by taxpayers money are used for other sinister actions. “Government-run social media accounts were used to debate and at times intimidate individuals who posted online comments considered critical of the government,” reads the 38-page report…

Such distillation sites are not in the open for everyone to see. For the producers to show you where they work from, they have to be convinced you can be trusted and not intent on handing them to the authorities In one family, a mother lives with four children in…

Residents along this small river are among those that must relocate under the latest warnings Up to 1,000 families living in specific locations around Kigali which government considers “high risk zones” must leave. At a press conference this Monday, Local Government Minister Prof Anastase Shyaka and Kigali Mayor Pudence Rubingisa…

Metropolitan Innocentios Byakatonda who is registered as the leader here Government has granted permission for establishment of the Orthodox Church in Rwanda, among 9 new “faith-based groups” registered. The ‘Orthodox Church in Rwanda’ registration certificate is published in the latest copy of the National Gazette. It will be headquartered in…

Even small rivers like this one saw a spike in their volume, cutting off a road Since January, the rain that has been pounding large parts of Rwanda has left a trail of destruction in such a short time not seen recently. The emergency management ministry (MINEMA) says 53 people…

At this Kabgayi Hospital in Muhanga district, one of the biggest facilities in the country, at least 120 isolation (quarantine) rooms are being prepared to house coronavirus cases Rwanda’s Prime Minister Dr Edouard Ngirente says government has put in place preparedness and response mechanisms to deal with a possible COVID-19…

Court of Appeal Justice Richard Muhumuza, former Prosecutor General In one of the major genocide cases involving Pentecostal Pastor Jean Uwinkindi (also Jean-Bosco), an appeals justice has opted to recuse himself from the bench. While appearing this Wednesday for start of his appeal at the Court of Appeal in Kigali,…

In one sector of Rubavu district, nearly 10 people were killed by family members in spate of killings that have caused alarm at local and central government levels. For the past 3 months, in Rubavu sector alone, yet there are many other sectors in same district, a mother hacked her…

Villagers in sectors along Rwanda-Uganda border live in fear. Gangs of men have been left to maraud the area as they go about their business smuggling Kanyanga, a crude alcohol, into Rwanda. Anyone who reports their movements risks death. Some families are so scared they don’t want to talk, even…

Christophe Bazivamo (in red necktie), the EAC Deputy Secretary General in charge of Productive and Social Sectors, received the kits on Friday on behalf of the region. The East African Community secretariat has obtained state-of-the-art diagnostic kits that can test and confirm deadly viruses including the COVID-19 or the coronavirus.…

The machetes became the must have tool during the genocide In February 1994 a representative of CHILLINGTON, a manufacturing company which makes machetes among other things, reported that the company sold more machetes in one moth than it had sold throughout the year 1993. Applications for import licenses examined by…