Special Reports
From ICASA to First Female Neurosurgeon; How Rwanda Sent Off 2019
ICASA – When Rwanda was announced to host the most complicated and biggest health gathering – the International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) earlier this month, the…
Umushyikirano 2019: A Day of Opening Up
Day 1 of the 17th National Umushyikirano Council dialogue at Kigali Convention Centre (KCC) was characterised by laying bare issues and addressing them in a concrete manner –there was no…
Satellite Symposia, Abstract Driven Sessions, Plenary Sessions – Farewell ICASA 2019
Fifteen million, the number of people whose lives have been claimed by AIDS, in Africa so far. Eight thousand, the number of people from across the world, who over the…
President Kagame, An illuminating Conversation with the Press
“Home grown solutions” is what Rwanda calls an approach that is rare in Africa, development that is channelled through African countries’ own culture and history. Unnoticed, one suspects even by…
A Stolen Bicycle and An Offer To Be A Rebel Fighter
Another week, another group of Rwandans relate tales of torture, and other forms of ill treatment in Ugandan jails. It has become a well-practised routine. Rwandans in their ones…
The Genocide Against Tutsi In the Eyes of 9 Year Old Child
In April this year as we started the 25th commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, I realized that my 9 year old eldest, is the same age as…
Celebrations, Pomp As 320 Officer Cadets Pass Out, Reunite with Families
On Saturday morning, all roads led to Rwanda Military Academy in Gako, Bugesera district, where the first cohort of 320 officer cadets who completed the first degree course combined with…
Why Chinese Engineering Companies Sign Rwanda’s Big Cheques
You have seen several big projects all over Rwanda’s capital Kigali. The city is growing so fast – from smallest structures to the tallest – to the widest. Kigali is showing…
And Let There Be Light for All By 2024
Rwanda aims for universal access to electricity by 2024, and it envisions the private sector as crucial to reaching that objective. Whether the sector is rising to the challenge was…
Rwanda This Week: From First Electric Car to Hotel Ranking, Hong Kong Investors…
Rwanda’s business partners have seized country’s ambition of innovation and technology, doing things with excellency and pioneering in ventures the continent is yet to embrace. The…
#ThrowBackThursday: Stories That Caught the Attention of Our Readers Most
We have written stories, really many stories and our esteemed readers appreciate our touch. Of all our stories, however, four proved to be the best stories ever according to Google…
A World Without Torture
With little fanfare, the Association for the Prevention of Torture has just concluded a three day conference, during which it launched a “toolkit” it hopes will make the world a…
