Voices

The centre of gravity in East Africa’s minerals economy is shifting from extraction to compliance-driven industrialisation. In Tanzania, mining has moved from 7.3% of GDP in 2021 to 9.1% in …

 Without private sector membership’s devotion, a nation has no economy, much less any chance to grow economically. The economy expands as they do. Conversely, it shrinks. Particularly, in Rwanda, that …

When we speak of Africa’s green transition, we often think of solar panels lighting up villages, electric buses in our cities, or trees reclaiming degraded land. But there is another, …

When people talk about careers, they often describe them as ladders: climb one rung at a time, and eventually you will reach the top. But for many young women, the …

Kigali is a hub of creativity, collaboration, and forward-looking energy and over the past two weeks, it again shone as a city that has evolved into a global center for …

A long, rambling, sanctimonious  self regarding missive from the eldest son of the genocidal former Rwanda President, Juvenal Habyarimana, brings to mind a thought by researcher, Dr Golooba-Mutebi, in an …

Once Again, and Finally, on the Issue of the Burundian Army in the Highlands I maintain and reaffirm my position. No one has yet approached me about the facts relating …

Thanks to the warm invitation by RPF, I had the privilege to walk the Liberation History Trail in the footsteps of Rwanda’s heroes, to tread this sacred soil and to …

Among the factors that perpetuate the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), must be counted its misrepresentation in the media, Western media in particular. It has become unavoidable …

In the late 1980s, Rwanda’s government faced a severe nutrition crisis. Decades of poor agricultural policy, land fragmentation, and neglect of rural welfare had left millions of Rwandans chronically undernourished. …

The same applies to the genocide committed against the Tutsi in Rwanda between 1990 and 1994, which, despite its indisputable international recognition, continues to be denied, falsified, or distorted by …

When I arrived in Nairobi on Monday afternoon, the city pulsed with its usual pre-pandemic rhythm. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) was alive with activity, the air thick with anticipation …