Survivors of the 1994 genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda and the government there are up in arms in reaction to plans by the UN tribunal set up to try genocide perpetrators (MICT), to actually instead release some of them. Rwanda has filed an official complaint with the UN Security Council where Russia is holding current […]

Kigali, 6 May 2018 – The Prime Minister of Rwanda, the Honourable Edouard Ngirente, this morning officially declared the African Innovation Summit (AIS) 2018 open in Kigali, Rwanda. AIS II will focus on innovative and disruptive solutions to the major challenges facing African countries, which include energy access, water, food insecurity, health systems, and governance. […]

Kigali– Africa’s cluster of Innovators and seekers to some of the major challenges facing the continent will meet in Kigali from 6-8 June, 2018 at the Kigali Convention Center as they seek to find solutions to these challenges. This year’s summit will focus on innovative and disruptive solutions to the major challenges facing African countries, […]

Rwanda President Paul Kagame has arrived in Belgium to attend the 12th edition of the European Development Days (EDD), which runs from 5-6 June 2018. Themed ‘Women and Girls at the Forefront of Sustainable Development: protect, empower, and invest’, this year’s EDD meetings will focus on the vital role of women and need for their full […]

Speakers at the International Conference on Responsible and Inclusive Finance (ICRIF) (http://www.amir.org.rw) held in Kigali on 21 March urged Rwandan microfinance institutions (MFIs) to embrace new-age technology to streamline their operations and to enhance their ability to extend financial inclusion among the country’s unbanked and underbanked population. Straton Habyalimana, senior programme manager for responsible financing […]

The Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP) and the Ministry of Environment, in partnership with the Rwanda Environment Management Authority, UN Environment, UNDP and GIZ, have convened the Africa Cooling Efficiency Conference in Kigali. The one-day event held today March 22 brought together approximately 50 cooling and energy efficiency stakeholders, decision makers and experts. The conference […]

The Rwanda National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) today repeated it’s frustration at France’s continued disregard for arrest warrants issued for suspects who took part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and fled there. CNLG has condemned in the strongest terms the latest action – the recruitment of Genocide convict and fugitive Charles […]

A group of parents of Rwandan nationals arbitrarily arrested by Uganda intelligence agencies have written to the Norwegian government asking for intervention. The letter addressed to Norwegian Embassy is written by a group of Parents whose sons were arrested in December 2017 as they headed for rebel recruitment. The 43 young men were recruited by […]

There’s nothing infuriating than someone taking credit for your work. We’ve all had this happen at one point or another: you share an idea with a colleague and then hear them repeat it in a meeting; you stay late to finish a presentation yet your team member accepts all the praise; you lead a long […]

The Uganda based propaganda website SoftPower.com this week published a story about an intelligence agent who fled the country fearing for his life. After fleeing the country Furaha Arinaitwe wrote a letter to president Museveni in which he claimed that he was on the run because Rwandan agents wanted to kill him. Arinaitwe, an intelligence […]

Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa is a controversial name that evokes both success and fraud in equal measure. If the measure of success is how fat one’s wallet is, then Rujugiro certainly features. However if success is the aggregate sum of an individual’s character, then the aging tycoon scores a flat F. One great writer put it […]