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President Kagame listens in as Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the virtual session of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) Presidential Panel, on September 11, 2020 Rwanda’s foreign affairs ministry has informed the DR Congo government that a physical meeting of regional leaders in Goma is not a good…

US-based Rwandan singer The Ben thrills thousands inside the iconic Kigali Arena By the end of last year, any given day was party time. And when it came to weekends, the temperatures even went higher. Concerts, live shows in bars and festivals kept revellers on their feet from year in,…

Kenya Airlines was among Kenyan carriers banned by Tanzania Tanzania has lifted a ban disallowing Kenyan airlines into the country effective immediately, a ban which would have placed RwandAir at an advantage to enjoy the Tanzanian market if maintained. This was after Kenya added the East African country to the…

A Rwanda Defense Force soldier calls in a 9-line report to request a medical evacuation, while Army Sgt. Jonathan Lopez, 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment medic, observes during a medical exercise Sept. 9, 2016, at the Rwanda Military Academy, Rwanda. The exercise, part of a two-week medical course, tested the…

Council of Councils global perspectives roundups gather opinions from experts on major international developments. In this edition, members of six leading global think tanks reflect on what reforms are the most important for the United Nations as it looks toward its next seventy-five years. The United Nations Security Council meets…

Dr Charles Murigande (PhD) and Brig General Emmanuel Ndahiro, are currently out of the limelight as Paul Rusesabagina appeared in a Kigali court On February 2, 2006, US envoy in Kigali at the time Michael Arietti met with Col. Dr Emmanuel Ndahiro, the Director of the National Security Service (NSS).…

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi had hoped to establish himself as the new regional power-broker with the Goma summit DR Congo indicated Sunday that the regional quadripartite summit scheduled this Sunday September 13 has been suspended indefinitely. The foreign affairs ministry in Kinshasa said the summit that was due in…

The new yet unnamed ADEPR hotel in Gicumbi district (above) and the troubled Dove Hotel in Kigali The Pentecostal Church of Rwanda or better known in Rwanda as ADEPR is at it again. Already, its leaders stole more than Rwf 3.3b from their followers, a matter local courts have failed…

Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye The Government of Burundi has declined to take part in the heads of state summit being organized by DR Congo due for September 13 in the border town of Goma. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi had been scheduled to host Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, Burundi’s…

Teachers from private schools have been hit hard by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Rwanda Schools are unlikely to fully open anytime soon since they were closed on March 12, two days before the first COVID-19 case was announced in Rwanda. At least 14% of the 78,108 total…

Found only in Rwanda, and not anymore, the last remaining collection is in the UK Did you know there was a flower plant in Rwanda, which has never been found anywhere else? Well, a decision taken by government to provide much-needed water for an agricultural project, caused an unintended consequence;…

The development of a promising Covid-19 vaccine has been put on hold due to a possible adverse reaction in a trial participant. A spokesman for AstraZeneca, the company working with a team from Oxford University, told the Guardian the trial has been stopped to review the “potentially unexplained illness” in…

One of the controversial measures is that people found without a mask or wearing it badly, are taken to nearby stadium where they spend night. Also, people found still on the roads after curfew hour, are also taken to sleep in stadium A group of thirteen NGOs has written to…

A burial takes place late May of the first COVID-19 victim in Rwanda. As of this September 6, Rwanda has recorded a total of 19 death caused by the COVID-19 virus with their funerals conducted by medical teams wearing heavy personal protective equipment. Apart from the first death, no other…

RwandAir is set to reap big in Tanzania as it fills the vacuum left by Kenya’s airlines which were banned from flying into that country. The airline, in a post on its website, announced that it will be operating three flights to Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro via Nairobi, Kenya.…

A green Kigali neighborhood in the new Master Plan 2050 Government on Friday unveiled the long-awaited vision of the capital Kigali that the country should have in 2050 – modifying the one first adopted more than 10 years ago. At a less eventful function in Kigali presided over by Infrastructure…

There are at least 120 vaccines against COVID-19 being developed from different countries including Kenya and Uganda. The race is on as to which country will have first vaccine. Russia already announced it has a vaccine The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that once a Covid-19 vaccine is approved,…

Trucks are packed for up 50Km inside Kenya at the Malaba border as drivers protest new Covid-19 test imposed by Uganda Trucks from Kenya with good headed to Rwanda and on to eastern Congo are stuck at the Uganda border as drivers protest new cost for COVID-19 test. At the…

8-year-old Jonathan Tuganijuru miraculously survived a shell fired from a conflict he will understand when he becomes an adult, that’s if God grants him more years to live An eight-year-old boy in Rubavu district bordering DR Congo has miraculously spent the better part of his very short life with bomb…

Our regular readers will have noticed our quick return, following our decision to suspend publication for a period of time. We are delighted to be back sooner than we had envisaged, and would like to welcome you back, and thank you for your patience and loyal readership. Some of you…

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo (R), African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat (L) and AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene (C) The Ghanaian government on Monday officially commissioned and handed over the headquarters of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat to the African Union in the Ghanaian capital Accra. The…

Exactly five months since the first COVID-19 case was reported, Rwanda has tested a relatively small portion of the population. Current estimates of the country’s total population by the National Institute of Statistics (NISR) puts the figure at 12,374,397. The first infection of the virus was reported on March 14.…

The countries of the region For the last few years the African political landscape has been dominated by high profile changes of leaders and governments. But have the changes of leaders and governments generated more democratic and responsive governments? The University of Birmingham’s Bertelsmann Transformation Index Africa Report 2020 (BTI),…

The Mahama camp had turned into a permanent settlement for the Burundian refugees The more than 72,000 Burundian refugees in Rwanda have been given freeway to start going back home beginning August 27. A tripartite videoconference meeting held Thursday involving Rwandan, Burundi and UN refugees agency officials agreed to begin…

DR Congo delegation to the talks is led by Tanganyika Province Governor Zoe Kabila, the young brother of ex-president Joseph Kabila Talks to resolve a deadly border dispute between Zambia and DR Congo collapsed on Thursday – three days into the five day talks. High-level delegations from both sides have…

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…