Imagine a new game, where the players have to look through as much Western media about Rwanda as possible, to find a truthful, informative depiction of the country. The needle …
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Since its opening in the early noughties, the Kigali Convention Centre (KCC) has hosted a number of important, national and international conferences and events. Few will arguably be more important …
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Special Reports
Villains, Wretched Victims And Heroic Saviours. Western Distorted View of DRC Conflict
We maybe in the digital era, the entire world our “global village”, but, for western journalists and commentators, with a few honourable exceptions, the depiction of Africa, as some remote …
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President Felix Tshisekedi, tells the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, that the international community must protect forthcoming elections in his country. Back home, a film of a scene …
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Nothing demonstrates the yawning gulf between outsiders’ depiction of Rwanda, and the reality of the country, more than the annual Umushyikirano, or the National Dialogue Council. After a three year …
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The Roman emperor Nero, apocryphally fiddled while Rome literally burned. That, were it true, would be as nothing, compared to Democratic Republic of Congo President, Felix Tshisekedi, who albeit figuratively, …
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EconomyNational
Heat Remains Intense But Fiscal Monetary Policies Hold Parasol Over Rwanda’s Economy
It is just five days ago, give or take, since the Rwanda Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), released its latest quarterly statement, after its meeting convened on 14th February …
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Special Reports
“Travesty of HRW On Rwanda” Continues, As Driver Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter of Journalist
The verdict in the fatal accident during which journalist John Ntwali died, will almost certainly understandably, disappoint his friends and family, but they are likely to accept that it is …
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In the digital age, where being accurate is all too often relegated to a distant second, to begin with this story, it can be difficult for public authorities to be …
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Special Reports
Might Rwanda Detractors Finally Allow Journalist’s Friends And Family Peace To Grieve
A week after his death in a road accident, journalist John William Ntwali’s family, friends and colleagues, can now have the privacy to grieve for him. Everything had had to …
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A young father of one, tragically dies in a road accident, sadly a common occurrence that is rarely the news it might be. Except that is, when it is in …
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From your doctor, the judge in a court of law, to even philosophers, the process is always the same. If you want to solve a problem, you first look at …