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Golfers during the Golf for Conservation event held at Kigali Golf Club on Sunday, November 27. Photo: Courtesy.

Tourism and golf move together, says Tourism Chamber official

Sunday, November 27, 2022
Vincent Biruta, and Guy Nestor Itoua, ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Rwanda, are joined with other heads of diplomatic missions to the country to plant trees during a special umuganda in Kicukiro District. Courtesy photo
Environment

Focus on climate change fight as Congo celebrates proclamation

Saturday, November 26, 2022
Minister of Enviroment Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya during tree planting exercise at Ecole Belge de Kigali on Tuesday, November 22. Courtesy
Environment

Youth urged to partake in environment conservation efforts

Tuesday, November 22, 2022
A view of ‘Sebeya’ river that flows into Lake Kivu near Serena Hotel in Rubavu District. Sebeya remains the leading river that still brings more waste in the lake, that cause water pollution. Photo by Germain Nsanzimana.
Environment

REMA warns of water pollution in Lake Kivu

Friday, November 18, 2022
Women who sell fresh sardines on the shores of Lake Kivu in Rusizi District. During the operations to crack down on all illegal fishing activities in Lake Kivu, over 30,000 illegal fishing nets and about 3,000 boats have been confiscated over the past three years. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Over 30,000 illegal fishing nets confiscated – report

Friday, November 18, 2022
A grey-crowned crane at Umusambi Village in Kigali, a nature reserve and sanctuary for the disabled, rescued endangered birds from captivity. Photo: Courtesy.
Environment

Rwanda’s crane population doubles in five years

Friday, November 18, 2022
Kigalians on walkways of the newly revamped Nyandungu wetland,that was officially inaugurated on July 18, 2022 . The 121 hectares wetland was rehabilitated to become Ecotourism Park. Courtesy
Environment

Kigali receives 'Wetland City Accreditation Award'

Thursday, November 17, 2022
A flooded wetland at Masaka in Kicukiro District in April. According to the State of Soil Erosion Control in Rwanda May 2022, more than 745,000 hectares of agricultural land in Rwanda are potentially eroded every year

Identifying climate-smart pathways for Rwanda to achieve shared social and economic prosperity

Monday, November 14, 2022
President Paul Kagame receives President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau at Village Urugwiro on Sunday, November 13. Photo by Village Urugwiro
Security

Kagame, Embaló discuss bilateral ties, regional security

Sunday, November 13, 2022
Residents draw water in the degraded Rusizi River. Rwanda is set to restore the-now degraded Rusizi River Basin and the Great Rift Valley with $50 million fund pledged by the Bezos Earth Fund. File
Environment

COP27: Rwanda secures funding to restore degraded River Rusizi

Friday, November 11, 2022
MP Germaine Mukabalisa highlighted different challenges related to the new bill governing national parks and nature reserves .Craish Bahizi
Tourism

MP Mukabalisa ‘pokes holes’ in provision on national park abolition

Thursday, November 10, 2022
Delegates during the Opening Ceremony of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt on Sunday, November 6. Courtesy
Environment

COP27: Activists want compensation fund for climate-induced losses

Thursday, November 10, 2022