Untold Story of Former President Sindikubwabo’s Butchery at University Teaching Hospital

Over 400 staff of the South based University teaching hospital, commonly known as CHUB on Saturday converged at Huye sector in Huye district to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi…

Kwibuka 24: Rwandans Pour their Hearts on Paper

Twenty four years after the Genocide, the Rwandan community is slowly graduating from the anguish of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in which more than a million Tutsi were…

Tracing Juvenal Habyarimana’s Three Catholic Friars Killed April 7

Around 1980, an incident happened in Gasiza village of Nyundo cell in the current Nyabihu district. Thirty-eight years later, nobody ever imagined it would come back to haunt the…

Celebrating Rwandan Women of 2018

Without A Gun, Uwemeyimana Saved 119 Tutsi

Notorious convicts of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, including senior military officers, Ministers and opinion leaders of the Genocidal regime have always defended themselves saying that they did not have…

Dilemma As Kiziguro Quarry Residents Remain Uncompensated

In July last year, a convoy of SUVs from Kigali arrived at Kabeza trading centre, Ndatemwa cell, Kiziguro sector in Gatsibo district. The speeding convoy with tinted window glasses branched…

From Egypt, They Won Hearts of Rwandan Mothers and Stayed

Rwanda seems to invoke an irresistible feeling to first time visitors many of whom have ended up extending their stay or leaving to return for permanent stay. In 2009, the…

The Feminist President? What Kagame has said on Women over the years

President Paul Kagame’s stance in support of women is not a recent phenomenon. The campaign for women rights and gender equality in Rwanda, on the continent and globally…

A day in The Life of Rwandan Hunters

On Sunday, when Christians gather in churches and synagogues to pray to God, it is a hunting day in Rwandan tradition. According to the Bible, by the seventh day, God…

How Peasant Women Turned into Professional Hoteliers

It is a busy Tuesday afternoon in Kigali as several guests check-in at Marriott Hotel. While in the Hotel lobby, hotel staffs help guests to waiting shuttles after days…

Why are Kigali’s Malls Almost Empty?

In January this year, the city of Kigali issued a directive requiring all businesses to vacate residential neighbourhoods and relocate to commercial zones. More than 910 businesses operating in residential…

Tracking Former Mayors and Tough Performance Contracts

On March 1st, in 2015, all Rwanda government officials left their air-conditioned offices, homes and cars – they boarded buses that ferried them to Gabiro Combat Training Centre for…