A combined assault by disasters against Rwanda could cost the country a massive Rwf100 billion ($132 million) loss bigger than the budget allocated to the agriculture sector. Rwanda suffers five …
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The gods have not let go of a man who, years before, blessed the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda It’s November 22, 1992, and the political situation inside Rwanda …
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TOUR DU RWANDA: Banana-eating Team Rwanda Gains Praise, Sets Bar High For Other Sports
A sarcastic cartoon caricaturizing the captain of the National Football Team, Amavubi, pleading to the President of the Rwanda Cycling Federation to give him a bike so he can ride …
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Sometime in 2013 on a busy morning at Saint André primary school in Muhanga district, Uwase Noella Chartine 12, was attentive in her grade four maths’ class. Suddenly three men …