A boy from a village in one of Africa’s poorest nations, gets a rare chance to go to school, then a scholarship, to study carpentry. From such difficult beginnings, somehow…
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Appropriately, for a profession not given to banging its own drum, the annual general meeting of the Association of East and Southern African Accountants-General (ESSAG), held in Kigali, came and…
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You want to take out a bank loan, open a bank account, or you simply want to know where you will get the best rates on your day to day…
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The former United States of America, Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who has died aged 84, leaves an enviable legacy of a life well lived. For Rwanda, however, she was…
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With a highly symbolic gesture, which traditionally, creates a bond between individuals, families and even nations, President Kagame recognises a younger man’s efforts to bring harmony, where older heads have…
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Artists, creative people in general, are notoriously ill equipped to profit from the arts they produce. Africa in Colours, a newly formed organisation, wants to change that, and help realise…
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Psychological violence is the most dominant form of domestic violence in Rwanda, according to just completed research by the Jesuit Centre for Research and Social Action. Unsurprisingly for a religious…
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National
Scientists Go Bat Crazy, As Hill’s Horseshoe Bat Feared Extinct Is Found In Nyungwe Forrest
It was believed to have been extinct, until researchers disturbed its sleep in a cave, in Rwanda’s Nyungwe forest. The fight is now on to help it go forth and…
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Think globally, act locally, is a maxim Dr Paul Edward Farmer, who died suddenly at the age of 62, fully embodied, except that his locale was the entire globe. For…
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We are often urged to “live in the moment” but how many of us ever do, or try to live each of our days fully, let alone, the moments? If…
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Poet Innocent BahatiA letter to a head of state, signed by some of the world’s most renowned writers, would ordinarily signal some happening of significance. But that the head of…
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Special Reports
Gatuna Border Post Is Open For Business, But Will it Be Permanently Or Just For Now?
In the small hours of Sunday 30th January, Uganda transnational lorry driver, Fabrison Wasswa Ndugwa, steered his lorry through the shiny, newly installed metal gates, into the shiny, newly constructed…