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Electoral commission staff help a resident during the legislative elections in 2018 in Zindiro in Gasabo District. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Politics

2024 polls: What are political parties up to?

Monday, March 04, 2024
Some of the mercenaries fighting alongside FARDC against M23. In 2023, DR Congo’s authorities sought to hire 2,500 military contractors from Latin America to fight in North Kivu province.
Africa

Inside Kinshasa’s plan to hire American mercenaries to fight M23

Sunday, March 03, 2024
Gen. Mubarakh Muganga, the Chief of Defence Staff of RDF, and other officials launch the programme.The project has a capacity to serve more than 9,000 residents.
Rwanda

Ngoma: RDF, RNP launch clean water supply project to benefit 9,000 residents

Sunday, March 03, 2024
Delegates during the launch of a $62.89 million project to boost smallholder farmer's agriculture exports, on March 1. Photos by Jean Pierre Mazimpaka
Agriculture

NAEB launches $63m project to boost smallholder farmer's agri-exports

Saturday, March 02, 2024
EU Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen speaks during a debate about insecurity in eastern DR Congo at the EU parliament on Tuesday, February 27
Africa

EU condemns DR Congo support to FDLR

Thursday, February 29, 2024
Actors in the cooperative development sector in Eastern Province gathered to discuss about solutions that hinder cooperative development including misuse of resources, ghost cooperatives among others
Law

Cooperatives Agency pushes for specialised lawyers to bolster justice in cooperative offenses

Thursday, February 29, 2024
A screenshot from Al Jazeera's video while Catherine Wambua-Soi, Al Jazeera’s producer in the region reporting on Wazalendo. Internet.

Eastern DR Congo: Al Jazeera’s sanitization of killer militia needs to stop

Wednesday, February 28, 2024
DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi (left) met with Angola's Joao Lourenço in the Angolan capital Luanda on Tuesday, February 27. Courtesy.
Africa

DR Congo crisis: Tshisekedi, Lourenço meet in Angola

Tuesday, February 27, 2024
President Paul Kagame held talks with the Chairperson of the East African Community (EAC) Summit, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan, and his delegation which included EAC Secretary General Peter Mathuki, in Kigali, on Thursday, February 22, before they proceeded to Burundi. Photo courtesy of Village Urugwiro
Africa

Kiir’s trip reaffirms commitment to EAC-led Nairobi process to avert deterioration of DR Congo crisis

Saturday, February 24, 2024
Some of the over 6,000 homes that were wrecked by disasters on May 3, 2023, in Nyundo Sector, Rubavu District. The government is identifying ‘disaster hotspots’ prone to floods and landslides nationwide to move more families from danger zones before March.
Environment

Govt to identify ‘disaster hotspots’ ahead of three-month heavy rains

Friday, February 23, 2024
University of Rwanda's Gikondo campus. The relocation initiative is part of a broader framework of the university’s ongoing institutional reforms. File photo
Education

Relocation of UR Gikondo campus students pushed to June

Friday, February 23, 2024
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi addressed a press conference on Thursday, February 22 where he backpedalled from the war rhetoric he has whipped up in recent months. Photo/Courtesy
Africa

Tshisekedi backtracks from war rhetoric to ‘give peace a chance’

Friday, February 23, 2024