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President Paul Kagame of Rwanda (L) and Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni (R) were once buddies, not anymore It is July 13, 1998, the late DR Congo President Laurent Desire Kabila fires James Kabarebe as his army chief of staff. The Rwandan commander had led the military operations that brought Kabila…

The ghost patients issue is not isolated to the health facility in Rulindo district Health officials at a facility located in rural Rulindo district may be conniving to inflate the number of patients treated there – a scheme likely happening at other facilities. For the year 2020, the Kamushenyi health…

An event at the UN Headquarters commemorating the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi President Paul Kagame came out strongly this Wednesday rapping the “one or two countries” he says “stubbornly refuse” to use the appellation ‘genocide against the Tutsi’. In a lengthy address to a select audience at the Kigali…

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The three appeared today in the Court of Appeal seeking to be freed unconditionally Three young journalists who have been in jail since October 9, 2018 have launched a fresh appeal seeking to be set free. The trio Shadrack Niyonsenga, Damascene Mutuyimana and Jean Baptiste Nshimiyimana were arrested on the…

Rwanda’s foreign affairs minister Dr Vincent Biruta (R) and Burundi counterpart Albert Shingiro met on October 20 last year at the Nemba border. Burundi has welcomed the closure of three radios that had been broadcasting from Rwanda since 2015. The radios; Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), Télé Renaissance and Radio Inzamba…

Widely dubbed “the financier of the genocide,” Rwandan Félicien Kabuga has carried with him since the 1994 genocide a heavy reputation for ordering machetes used to kill Tutsis. This central charge, however, has disappeared from the new indictment issued against him. Kigali has reacted with silence. We explain why. Kabuga,…

Commissioning ceremony of Rwanda Nationalational Police Cadets – at the Police Training School (PTS) Gishari, in Rwamagana District. The Rwanda National Police says it will stop at nothing to ensure the Cops you see on the streets and neighborhoods are not tainted in any way. Data from the Police shows…

Trucks arrive with tons of earth which they dump in the wetland on both sides of road For weeks, on a daily basis, heavy duty trucks have been heading to Gisozi suburb of Kigali to dump tons of earth there. It seems the person behind the project is so powerful…

Occupied mud brick shelters in Mahama refugee camp which would have become permanent home for Burundian refugees, but they now have to go back home. With new communities taking over the huge space, it could be a large ghost site [Photo/ UNHCR – Eugene Sibomana] As Burundian refugees repatriate, government…

Rwanda’s national ID or Indangamuntu is such a prized item, without which, you will have a lot of trouble to access any service “My ID was released when the personal details where wrong, the names where written wrongly and the age was wrong too,” narrates a resident from Nyagatare district.…

Green Party leader Dr Frank Habineza during a session in Parliament The opposition Democratic Green Party of Rwanda on Wednesday called for a ‘lasting solution’ after its campaign against hiked property tax bore fruit. The Finance Minister De Uzziel Ndagijimana announced Tuesday late evening that government had decided to suspend…

President Paul Kagame meets Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland at Village Urugwiro, January 11, 2021 Queen Elizabeth II has lately avoided being associated publicly with SG. The UK, New Zealand and Australia, have put off crucial funding, leaving the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Patricia Scotland’s own future uncertain. Baroness…

Dr Kayumba Christopher “This serves to inform members of the media and the general public about the formation of the Rwandese Platform for Democracy (RPD) as a forum to advance, and contribute to the development of a freer, democratic, just, secure and sustainably peaceful and developed Rwanda,” is how Dr…

Uwimana Nkusi Agnes, editor of Umurabyo news site A judge on Tuesday ordered the arrest and detention of Nkusi Uwimana Agnes, editor of Umurabyo news site, who was covering the bail hearing of Idamange Yvonne, the woman facing charges over controversial YouTube videos. On Tuesday afternoon, Idamange had returned to…

Marking Commonwealth Day March 8, 2021 in Kigali Rwanda’s foreign affairs minister Dr Vincent Biruta said Monday that the country would organize a “safe meeting” for the nearly 10,000 delegates expected to attend the Commonwealth summit in late June. In a statement marking Commonwealth Day, March 8, Biruta said: “As…

The Queen speaking today Queen Elizabeth II has stressed how important it is to stay in touch with family and friends during testing times and praised the “selfless dedication to duty” seen across the Commonwealth. Commonwealth Day is an annual celebration observed by people all over the Commonwealth in Africa,…

President Paul Kagame (Right) and President Evariste Ndayishimiye at the virtual EAC Summit February 27, 2021 As deceased former President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza sat in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, ahead of the summit for leaders of the East African Community (EAC) on May 13, 2015, the news media got…

In bid to encourage couples in unofficial unions, such mass civil unions are regularly conducted in different parts of Rwanda Government intends to change all laws that categorize civil unions as the only legally acceptable marriages, in bid to protect women access to property. In new gender policy approved by…

All districts of northern province have cleared the due payments for former Burgomasters, except Burera district A group of former local leaders from northern Rwanda under the old administrative structure, known at the time as Burgomasters, have not been paid some their legal packages nearly 20 years later. Four former…

Top left: Idamange Iryamugwiza YvonneTop right: American law Prof Peter Erlinder dressed in prison uniform in Rwanda as he battled his own case in 2010.Bottom right: Aimable Karasira, whose images have been manipulated on Facebook to show him as using drugs that his judgement cannot be trusted. For the ordinary…

Rwanda’s Parliament is no longer physically meeting in the chambers since last week. MPs attend sessions from home Rwanda’s Parliament is preparing a resolution which will be sent to the European Parliament after the latter called for “international investigation” into the case of Paul Rusesabagina. On Thursday, the EU Parliament…

Scenes like these became a daily occurrence during the period when the curfew hour was 7pm, as drivers and moto taxi riders, sped so deadly to get home The authorities are expectedly bracing for a sudden spike in deadly accidents beginning this Monday February 8 caused by speeding motorists rushing…

At the Iwawa Rehabilitation Center on lake Kivu, thousands of young men are kept for months, some for years, as they undergo reform. Hundreds have returned back to society and become successful entrepreneurs. However, critics say what happens there to these youths is human rights abuses From calls for “compulsory”…

In Kigali, since last week, Government began mass testing up to 20,000 people over 70years and those with underlying medical conditions There is fury in Rwanda after the UK banned travelers from Rwanda over COVID-19. The bad news came, coincidentally, the same day as a study published by Australia’s Lowy…

Julian Braithwaite, UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva As the UK, which is Rwanda’s biggest donor, demanded action on a number of issues concerning Kigali’s human rights record, the authorities in Rwanda were having none of it. At the UN’s Universal Period…

A teacher attends to children at a local school. The petitioners to Parliament say they need redress A group of people with university qualifications for education have written to Parliament seeking for review of process that led to recruitment of 24,600 new teachers. The Rwanda Education Board (REB), the education…

A Rwandan delegation appeared virtually on Monday at the ongoing Universal Periodic Review in Geneve, to defend the government’s human rights record. The delegation, all in their Kigali offices during the session included; Justice Minister and Attorney General Johnston Busingye as head, Local Government Minister Prof Anastase Shyaka, and CEO…

Residents of sectors of Gicumbi district on Uganda border need protection from the central government Residents of Manyagiro sector in northern Rwanda laying directly on border with Uganda are living in fear of a smuggling gang that brings the illegal and banned crude gin known as ‘Kanyanga’. To be able…

Paul Rusesabagina appearing in Kigali court during one of the bail hearings The Belgian government has told Parliament there that it is “closely monitoring” the case of Paul Rusesabagina, currently in pretrial detention in Rwanda. Rusesabagina, the man portrayed in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, has been in custody in…