Regional Protection Force soldiers from Rwanda arrive in South Sudan to support UNMISS in protecting civilians Aug 2017Once torn apart by the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi—a horror that stained…
Rwanda
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Special Reports
Tracking Former Mayors and Tough Performance Contracts
by Dan Ngabonziza & Jean dAmour Ahishakiye 2:36 pmOn March 1st, in 2015, all Rwanda government officials left their air-conditioned offices, homes and cars – they boarded buses that ferried them to Gabiro Combat Training Centre for the…
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Rwandans will by far remember Paul Kagame’s Friday inauguration as the most organised, glamorous and highly attended event of its kind. By 7am, the gates of a 25,000-seater Amahoro National…
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Peacekeeping Rules May Have to Change to Avoid What Happened in Rwanda While South Africans were piecing themselves together after stamping out apartheid, up north in 1994, Rwanda was tearing…
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Ngabo Jean Marie was ‘kidnapped’ on the streets of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in DR Congo. The assailants were right on time – Ngabo had just been…
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After intense pressure, Malawi has succumbed and finally arrested Rwandan Genocide suspect Vincent Murekezi. But who is this man? He has been so powerful in Malawi that his heavy bank…
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Special Reports
Inside Rwanda’s Affordable Housing Explosion
by Julius Rwakarema & Leonard Nshimiyimana 10:45 pmAre the announcements of huge projects for ‘affordable houses’ to be taken seriously?When King Mohammed VI of Morocco was here in October, a $68m project for 5,000 cheap houses was…
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National
Ethnic divisionism is only vulnerability threat to Rwanda – says Defence Minister
by Dias Nyesigaby Dias Nyesiga 10:19 pmRwanda’s Defence Minister, Gen. James Kabarebe said the country’s security cannot be shaken come any threat as he was confident of country defence forces ability to repulse any attacks on…
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Business & Tech
Rwanda Makes it Easy to Access Credit than Any African Country
by Kalinda Brenda 5:15 pmRwandans can easily walk into a bank to acquire loans in a short period and start business compared to their African counterparts. In a latest report by the Institute of…
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It’s a Thursday morning as I leave office for a bus journey to Southern Province to meet Father Ubald Rugirangoga – a controversial priest mostly known for healing people through…
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Rwandans in cooperation with the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague organized the 22nd commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Organised under the theme ‘Fighting Genocide…