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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…

A resident of Goma waits in line at a tap provided by government. However, due to very low supply, residents have to spend the night there for any hope of water. The problem though, the water at that tap is not the best quality An estimated 1.5 million people living…

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…

The African Union (AU) has suspended South Sudan from the continental body after Juba failed to pay its annual contributions amounting to over 9 million U.S. dollars. South Sudan’s mission to Ethiopia wrote to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week informing its government that the east African country…

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda at an earlier EAC summit The East African Community (EAC) has been ranked the most integrated bloc among eight regional economic communities (RECs) by the African Regional Integration Index for 2019. All eight RECs are recognised by…

(FromL) World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme Director Michael Ryan, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove attend a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO heardquaters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. – WHO Director-General…

A separate bank account has been set up by government, where all money being mobilized to deal with impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, is deposited. All government expenditures have previously been handled through a single account system managed by the Finance Ministry. It is from this system that government pays…

President Paul Kagame is welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II for the CHOGM dinner in London during the 2018 CHOGM. Is at this summit that Rwanda was selected to host CHOGM 2020 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came through with his campaign pledge to merge the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)…

The owner of this home on the Base-Rukomo road route went through 5 different valuations conducted by RTDA, all bringing different amounts. The owner didn’t get any compensation, and has nowhere to go. This case is one of countless people whose lives were destroyed by a project that was meant…

Ethiopia’s military has intervened in a simmering dispute with Egypt over the controversial Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile, which Egypt says could deprive its people of life-giving water. In an interview with the state-owned Ethiopian newspaper Addis Zemen on Friday, Deputy Army Chief General Birhanu Jula said…

This suspect Rukundo Assouman was rearrested again in April 2019 after he confronted a genocide survivor saying: “I’ll kill you so that you follow your relatives”. He was found guilty in 2016 over similar actions, was released under presidential pardon in September 2018 together with 2,139 others The Rwanda Investigations…

The Rwanda Defence Force last week received a variety of personal protective equipment from China for fighting Covid-19, worth about US$290,000 An Oxford University study has placed Rwanda among well prepared countries that qualify to rollback COVID-19 measures. The countries ranked in the top 10 on their preparedness were New…

Jean-Claude Gafishi was arrested in 2018 by Congolese security personnel and released In September 2018, a Rwandan national and three Congolese were arrested carrying 100kg of Coltan at a place called Rubaya, in eastern DR Congo. The Rwandan national in the intercepted group was identified as Jean-Claude Gafishi and was…

President Paul Kagame addresses the UN General Assembly last year. With COVID-19, world leaders may address the summit via recorded video from the home capitals The president of the U.N. General Assembly announced on Monday that world leaders will not be traveling to New York for their annual gathering in…

Inside the 80-member Chamber of Deputies, the lower House of Parliament. Both Houses will be observers in how the executive manages some key affairs Parliament will no longer have any role in the establishment or disbandment of government agencies, once a new amendment bill becomes law. Both the Chamber of…

In Rwanda, there are a thousand “protected witnesses” from the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Among them, the feeling of abandonment often dominates. This is the case of Mother KRA, who lives isolated in a miserable hovel where she no longer sees anyone and is surprised that she has…

On May 23, Police paraded 20 men and women who were found in a sauna against the COVID-19 measures barring being in such places Since March 15, cabinet imposed nationwide total lockdown, which was later modified to night curfew and a host of other measures. While all questions around the…

Munyakazi Sadate, the Chairman of Rayon Sports, is a surrounded man with trouble after trouble following him every other week The troubles of Munyakazi Sadate, the chairman of top Rwanda league club Rayon Sports, seem to be going from worse to worst. He has come up with a new set…

“I am in a meeting. Will call back.,” is how many officials respond to media requests – and never call back. Even worse, reporters have experienced rejection and harassment. Ordinary people who speak to media are also targeted. How open and transparent are Rwandan officials when it comes to journalists…

Despite Burundi and Rwanda having unusually close bond dating back centuries, the current leaders President Paul Kagame and his outgoing Burundi counterpart Pierre Nkurunziza last met on April 13, 2015. Here was Nkurunziza paying courtesy call on Kagame in Huye district, Rwanda, near the Burundi border Rwanda, through the Foreign…

Two judges and a court registrar in southern Rwanda have been jailed for up to eight years after rendering favorable rulings for people who had given them bribes. Those jailed are Muhanga district intermediate court judges Mubabotwaza Munyeshyaka and Mushimiyiryo Pacifique, and court registrar Banashenge Victoire. In the charge sheet,…