Parliament
Rwanda Parliament Approves 5 Air Service Agreements
The Rwanda Parliament on Wednesday approved draft laws approving the ratification of the Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASAs) between Rwanda and 5 Countries namely Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia…
PAC Tasks Government to Resolve Audit Non-compliance Cases
The Parliament has tasked the government to streamline issues underlying non-compliance to the Office of the Auditor General Reports, after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report showed a decline…
Rwanda Senate Recommends Ways of Attaining Unity and Reconciliation
The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) has said that there is progress being made in unifying Rwandans but more efforts will have to be put on proper education of…
Rwanda Selected to Host Global Parliamentary Assembly
The Inter-Parliament Union (IPU) Governing Council has confirmed that, Rwanda will host the next Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly and related meetings. Formed in 1889, the IPU is a global…
Parliament to Assess How Citizens Are Coping with Covid-19
Teams of parliamentarians today descended the countryside to spend a full week on an outreach program intended to assess socioeconomic activities and how communities are dealing with the Covid-19…
Senate Releases Report on People Taking the Law Into their Own Hands
A Senate committee report has showed that the eastern province has the highest number of citizens who take the law in their hands and mostly because of being victims of…
Service Commission Seeks Punitive Measures against Officials Breaching Labor Law
The National Public Service Commission (NPSC) has recommended government to take tough punitive measures on officials who take unlawful decisions on jobs of civil servants resulting to government losing millions…
Covid-19: Rwanda Parliament Amends Abunzi Law
Parliament has passed an amended bill that extends the mandate of Abunzi community justice whose five-year term expired two months ago. Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice…
The Task Ahead is Two-Fold – President Kagame to New Senators
President Paul Kagame has urged newly sworn-in Senators to work hard, bearing in mind that the country has many challenges to address, which requires them to sacrifice more and…
Evode Uwizeyimana Bounces Back to Politics as Senator
President Paul Kagame has, pursuant to the constitutional powers given to him, appointed four senators to replace some of the six outgoing senators who completed their eight year mandate this…
National Rights Body Seeks More Funding to Execute Mandate
The Chairperson of the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has asked Parliament to advocate for the commission to get more budget support and permanent residence in Kigali so as…
More Pressure on Belgium to Drop Genocide Denier from Commission to Examine Colonial Past
The Rwandan Parliament has added its voice on the growing call to drop a Rwandan woman accused of genocide denial from a committee established to examine the European country’s…
