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The hospital was founded to address the gaps in the provision of eye care services in Rwanda. Photos by Christianne Murengerantwari for The New Times
Society

Mashariki synergy: How a partnership between a Rwandan and Kenyan doctor birthed an eye hospital

Monday, May 20, 2024
Newly commissioned officer cadets during a parade at Rwanda Military Academy in Gako on Monday, April 15. The government is planning to establish Rwanda’s first national defence university. Photo: Dan Gatsinzi.
Education

Plan for Rwanda’s first defence university underway, says minister

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
On May 2, 1994, the killers' government aimed to carry out a massacre of Tutsi sheltering at Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali. Courtesy
Kwibuka

May 2, 1994: Plot to attack refugees at Hotel des Mille Collines foiled

Thursday, May 02, 2024
(L-R) Maj Gen Ephraim Rurangwa , the new Chief of Staff of the Medical Health Service, Brig General Dr John Nkurikiye the new Deputy Chief of Staff of the Medical Health Service and Brig Gen Eugene Ngoga, the new Commandant Rwanda Military Referral and Teaching Hospital . Courtesy
Health

Kagame approves RDF new health service, names top management

Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Genocide convict Jean Baptiste Gatete, the former Bourgmestre of Murambi, was one of local leaders who played their role in planning and executing Genocide against the Tutsi
Rwanda

Role of local authorities in the planning and execution of genocide against the Tutsi between October 1990 and March 1994

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
On ApriI 22, 1994, at the Benedictines Sisters’ Monastery in Huye, nuns turned away the Tutsi who wanted to take refuge there. Courtesy
Kwibuka

April 22, 1994: Catholic nuns turn away Tutsi seeking refuge at monastery

Monday, April 22, 2024
On April 21, 1994, the United Nations disregarded the urgent calls regarding the escalating crisis in Rwanda as the UN Security Council amended the UNAMIR mandate and withdrew a portion of its troops from the country.
Kwibuka

April 21, 1994: UN ignores warnings, adopts resolution to withdraw some troops from Rwanda

Sunday, April 21, 2024
President William Ruto has confirmed the death of Kenya's Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Francis Ogolla, who passed on on Thursday, April 18. Courtesy
Africa

President Ruto mourns Kenyan military chief

Thursday, April 18, 2024
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo soldiers rest next to a road after Islamist rebel group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked area around Mukoko village, North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 11, 2018.
Africa

ADF rebels kill 15 in eastern DR Congo attacks

Sunday, April 14, 2024
Rwandans last week commomerated the 30 years after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Courtesy

A luta continua: Confronting Genocide denial

Sunday, April 14, 2024
Interahamwe during one of their so-called political meetings a few months before the Genocide against the Tutsi.
Kwibuka

Role of so-called Hutu Power political parties in the planning of the genocide committed against the Tutsi

Friday, April 12, 2024
Speaker of Parliament Donatille Mukantabana is helped to light a candle in memory of Genocide victims interred at Nyanza Genocide Memorial in Kicukiro District on Thursday, April 11. Nyanza memorial is the final resting place of over 100,000 victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi. DAN KWIZERA

How the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi became the fruit of a populist Nazi-style ideology

Friday, April 12, 2024