Artists, creative people in general, are notoriously ill equipped to profit from the arts they produce. Africa in Colours, a newly formed organisation, wants to change that, and help realise …
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Psychological violence is the most dominant form of domestic violence in Rwanda, according to just completed research by the Jesuit Centre for Research and Social Action. Unsurprisingly for a religious …
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National
Scientists Go Bat Crazy, As Hill’s Horseshoe Bat Feared Extinct Is Found In Nyungwe Forrest
It was believed to have been extinct, until researchers disturbed its sleep in a cave, in Rwanda’s Nyungwe forest. The fight is now on to help it go forth and …
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Think globally, act locally, is a maxim Dr Paul Edward Farmer, who died suddenly at the age of 62, fully embodied, except that his locale was the entire globe. For …
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We are often urged to “live in the moment” but how many of us ever do, or try to live each of our days fully, let alone, the moments? If …
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Poet Innocent BahatiA letter to a head of state, signed by some of the world’s most renowned writers, would ordinarily signal some happening of significance. But that the head of …
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Special Reports
Gatuna Border Post Is Open For Business, But Will it Be Permanently Or Just For Now?
In the small hours of Sunday 30th January, Uganda transnational lorry driver, Fabrison Wasswa Ndugwa, steered his lorry through the shiny, newly installed metal gates, into the shiny, newly constructed …
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The government of Rwanda is consistently ranked among the top ten most efficient governments in the world, by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Such achievements do not come serendipitously. Thanks …
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Reports are coming in, from Guinea-Bissau, of gunfire near the Prime ministerial offices. According to witness in the capital Bissau, gun men dressed in civilian clothing, opened fire around the …
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Only since the government had categorically denied a military coup had taken place, the Army in Burkina Faso has announced it had ousted the President, suspended the constitution, dissolved government …
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Not a coup d’état in the West African country of Burkina Faso, but a mutiny among the military, over the government’s handling of the jihadist insurgency, says the government. Residents …
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As the World Economic Forum (WEF) prepares for its annual meeting in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos, which this year is to be held virtually, a group of some …