Politics

Inside the RMC hearing on Friday October 18: On the left were RMC Commissioners, while on left was journalist Stanley Gatera and Me. Cyprien Nsabimana, who had been sent by Rusizi district mayor. The session was attended by other journalists since the hearings are public (Photo by Christopher Hitayezu/Twitter) The…

President Paul Kagame chats with the President of Senate, Dr Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo, outside an event at parliamentary buildings in Kigali, August 14, 2013 (Photo by Village Urugwiro) At campaign rallies on DAY THREE of the 2010 presidential election season, on July 23, in Gisagara and later Nyaruguru districts, the…

Dr Francis Habumugisha triumphantly leaves court after during his first appearance Dr Francis Habumugisha, the businessman facing prosecution for assaulting two women is nowhere to be seen yet he is supposed to be in detention awaiting his trial. Following his arrest mid last month, he was paraded at a court…

Heavy rain in march last year caused river Sebeya to break its banks, flooding several villages in Rubavu district. It is from this disaster that the cement was given to the district In August last year, the Ministry of Defense delivered 5,078 bags of cement to Rubavu district meant to…

NEW TEAM L-R: Dr Alvera Mukabaramba (Senate Vice President for Administration and Financial Affairs), Senate President Iyamuremye Augustin, President Paul Kagame and Esperance Nyirasafari, Senate Vice President for Legislative Affairs and Government Oversight. A new Senate took oath of office Thursday at a ceremony presided over by President Paul Kagame…

WASAC CEO Eng. Aimé Muzola signs the dummy cheque of Rwf 50m as annual contribution of the corporation to Agaciro Development Fund CEO Jack Kayonga looks at event in Kigali on Tuesday A criminal investigation ordered by Infrastructure Minister Claver Gatete into water provider WASAC may have to be abandoned…

Inside the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies. Under normal circumstances, this session and others are recorded and the verbatim is accessible to any member of the public, which is not the case with our parliament All competent Parliaments keep a transcribed record of everything members say in plenary…

Health Minister Dr Diane Gashumba speaking on Lyon, France at the Global Fund conference Health Minister Dr Diane Gashumba announced Thursday in France that Rwanda will make its own pledge to the $14b needed by the Global Fund. The world agency dealing with HIV/Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis, is holding its…

Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza Leader of FDU Inkingi political grouping Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza returns on Friday tomorrow for more interrogations in connection with the Musanze district attack last Friday night. Ingabire was questioned on Tuesday amid allegations, some of which have come out publicly, that her party was privy to an…

Bernard Makuza, the President of the outgoing Senate, speaking at final press conference today The eight-year term of the Senate ends this Thursday October 10, opening a new chapter in Rwandan’s parliamentary structure with Senators also serving for five year term, renewable once. The 26-member Senate was introduced by the…

Cops arrest Pastor Gregg Schoof after presenting to him summon from RIB Police in Kigali on Monday morning arrested an American pastor Gregg Schoof as he prepared to hold a press conference where he was to announce his departure from Rwanda. Schoof, according to details we have obtained, is moving…

The 14 victims of the attack were buried today afternoon Police say security forces have captured some of the attackers who attacked three sectors in Musanze district, northwestern Rwanda. They attacked Nyanze, Kinigi and Musanze sectors. Some were captured during military operations since Friday night following the attack, while others…

President Kagame reacts to huge reception from the Rwandan diaspora in Bonn, Germany This Saturday, more than 3,500 Rwandans from mainly German and other EU countries descended on the Germany city of Bonn for ‘Rwanda Day’ – a government-led diaspora mobilisation forum. It took place hours after an attack by…

Musanze district where the attack happened Between 10-11pm yesterday, armed assailants attacked Kaguhu cell in Kinigi sector and Kabazungu cell in Musanze sector – all in Musanze district, northern province. The first news about the attack emerged very early Saturday morning due to the remoteness of the areas. However, early…

ADEPR pastors stand outside DOVE Hotel in Gisozi, Kigali. It is the hotel causing such a big fight with billions at stake Twelve former pastors and officials of the Pentecostal Church of Rwanda (ADEPR) are appearing this Thursday and Friday in an appeals court which could see them either repaying…

Former Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu The day when the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels launched Liberation struggle, October 1, 1990, according to former prime minister Faustin Twagiramungu, is the day of when all Rwanda’s current problems started. Twagiramungu, speaking for a group calling itself Rwandan movement for democratic change (MRCD),…

Anti-corruption billboards are everywhere across the country as part of the government’s tough war on graft. However, there remain widespread accusations that its targeting the “small fish” In March 2015, Emmanuel Habyarimana, the former executive secretary of Nyabihu district in western province was found guilty and sentenced to 2 years…

Members of the electoral college line up to vote in Muhanga district. It is these who are elected from cells and sectors levels that go on to elect district mayors Women mayors have been elected to take over four districts whose mayors resigned in the recently mass resignations. By-elections were…

This was Hotel Faucon in Huye district. It was a top hotel in the precolonial era. It also had a Signpost outside reading: “entrée interdit aux noirs et chiens” (no blacks and dogs allowed). King Rudahigwa stormed it in 1955, angrily beat up white managers and staff. Sign was removed. Only…

Ombudsman Anastase Murekezi is also the immediate former Primer Minister The Ombudsman Anastase Murekezi has recommended prosecution for 10 government officials who have not declared their wealth as par the stipulations of the civil service act. For the period 2018-2019, a total of 12,237 people who fall under the civil…

Sylidio Dusabumuremyi was unknown until his death Sylidio Dusabumuremyi, the reported coordinator of the FDU Inkingi, political group of Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza, was killed by professionals, according to her. Dusabumuremyi was on Monday evening around 9:30pm stabbed to death in his canteen which he operated inside the Shyogwe hospital in…

Bernard Makuza who has survived all the political turmoil in Rwanda In a leaked confidential cable to Washington on August 5, 2008, the American embassy in Kigali described Bernard Makuza as “affable but ineffectual” (a nice guy but poor at his job). At the time, Makuza was enjoying his eighth…

Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga (R) welcomes Alix Boyd Knights, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Dominica, an Island in the Caribbean Over 1,000 delegates are arriving in Uganda for the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, one the major gatherings of the 54 nations member bloc. Rwanda, despite ongoing…

This was in October last year when Esperance Nyirasafari (2nd Right) has just taken her oath of office as Sports and Culture Minister President Paul Kagame has this Friday evening named the first batch of four Senators from the eight he is constitutionally mandated to appoint to the 26-member Upper…

Justice Minister and Attorney-General Johnston Busingye is the line-minister overseeing the National Public Prosecution Authority, Rwanda Investigations Bureau (RIB) and the National Police The Prosecutor-General Jean Bosco Mutangana has dropped all charges against a local TV and radio presenter Mulindahabi Irénè. The development came after the intervention of Justice Minister…

A local TV and radio presenter was on Tuesday September 17 arrested by the Rwanda Investigations Bureau (RIB) over alleged obscene social media posts – his case coming after several others people facing prosecution over what they shared online. Arrest of Irénè Mulindahabi, co-presenter of Sunday Night Live show on…

Phocus Ndayizeye was presented to media on November 28, 2018. He told journalists that indeed he and others had acquired explosives to blow up parts of Kigali Terror case against Phocus Ndayizeye a stringer with British broadcaster BBC and 11 co-accused failed to get underway this Wednesday. The International Crimes…

The trouser is similar to the latest uniforms worn by the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF), perhaps a clear indication that he was well up to date with the happenings in Rwanda He has been announced as dead several times in the last 10 years, and that has finally come true.…

Rwanda Energy Group (REG) is the national electricity company Electricity provider Rwanda Energy Group (REG) is on the spot after Parliament found it had hired a consultant for work which could have been sourced locally. Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), ministry of infrastructure delegation led by permanent secretary…

When more than 7,000 graduated in 2017 from a stadium – making the biggest such event ever graduation For 2019-2020, government scholarships have been granted to 9,968 who will attend different colleges of the University of Rwanda (UR). A total of 12,560 students who completed their high school last year…