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Some of the defendants before court in Musanze District on March 25, 2014. / File.
Rwanda

Convicts of 2014 Musanze grenade attacks back in court

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
RwandAir, Qatar Airways and Ethiopian Airlines planes at Kigali International Airport. / Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Global airlines industry headed for worst year in history

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
A quarry site in Jabana, Gasabo District. The slowdown in mining and mineral trading has prompted the Government to devise new strategies to boost the sector and put it on a path to speedy recovery from the Covid-19 impact. / Photo: Julius Bizimungu.
Rwanda

Government lays out new strategies to revive mining sector

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
A visitor is taken through the history of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi at Kigali Genocide Memorial. / Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Genocidal govt ‘earmarked over Rwf150m for Tutsi massacre’

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
World Bank Prospects Group Director Ayhan Kose addresses a meeting. / Photo: Net.
Rwanda

World Bank warns of worst recession since WWII

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Members of Parliament during a recent session. / Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

Lawmakers seek inquiry into unfair court judgments

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
A waiter serves a customer at Onomo Hotel in Kigali on January 10. The private sector was severely affected by Covid-19 pandemic. / Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Rwanda rolls out Rwf100 billion Covid-19 recovery fund

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Some of the Rwandans who were released by Uganda on arrival at the Kagitumba One-Stop Border Post on Monday, June 8. Uganda has promised to release more Rwandans as part of efforts to normalise relations between Kigali and Kampala. / Photo: Dan Nsengiyumva.
Rwanda

79 Rwandans deported after illegal Uganda detentions

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Farmers select irish potato seeds. / Photo: Net.
Rwanda

Farmers decry high cost of potato seeds

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
A woman buys sanitary pads in a supermarket in Kigali. / Photo: File.
Rwanda

How girls managed period poverty during Covid-19 lockdown

Tuesday, June 09, 2020
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Rwanda

UN prosecutor to member states: Intensify efforts to locate, arrest Genocide fugitives

Monday, June 08, 2020
An agronomist works in a seeds production centre in Musanze. According to the Auditor Generalu2019s report, RAB and its partners achieved 31% of their seeds production target. / Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Five major agric projects that hit a snag

Monday, June 08, 2020
Minister for Finance and Economic planning Uzziel Ndagijimana. / Photo: File.
Rwanda

How proposed private sector 2020/21 budget stimulus packages will lessen Covid-19 impact

Saturday, June 06, 2020
Some of the 29 people who were arrested in the City of Kigali after they were found engaged in varied illegal activities on Thursday. / Photo: Courtesy.
Rwanda

COVID-19: Close to 30 arrested in prohibited gatherings

Saturday, June 06, 2020
Seabirds sail on Lake Rweru in Bugesera District. Speaking during a webinar organised on the occasion of the World Environment Day, on Friday, June 5, the Minister for Environment, Jeanne du2019Arc Mujawamariya, said that u201cour livelihood depends on the invaluable services provided by biodiversity and natureu201d, and called on everybody to play their role in conserving it.
Rwanda

Nature is sending us clear signals, we need to change our ways – environment minister

Saturday, June 06, 2020
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Rwanda

Rwanda reports 10 more Covid-19 cases

Friday, June 05, 2020
A taxi-moto operator carries a passenger in Kigali on Wednesday, June 3. The motorcyclists returned in operation yesterday after over two months of inactivity due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Some operators reported slow business on day one. / Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

Taxi-moto business ‘slow’ on first day of reopening

Thursday, June 04, 2020
Gen. Jean Bosco Kazura, RDF Chief of Defence Staff (right), and Amb. Rao Hongwei, the Chinese envoy to Rwanda, exchange documents after signing the handover in Kigali on Wednesday, June 3. / Photos: Courtesy.
Rwanda

RDF receives anti-Covid-19 supplies from China

Thursday, June 04, 2020
The first Extraordinary Intersessional Summit of the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) on 3 June 2020 . / Village Urugwiro
Rwanda

Lift sanctions against Sudan, Zimbabwe -- Kagame

Thursday, June 04, 2020
The New Times
Rwanda

WED: What has Rwanda gained from banning use of plastic bags?

Thursday, June 04, 2020