It was an emotional moment when Etienne Safari 82, was handed a certificate, recognizing him as a literate after eight decades of illiteracy. The certificate is his only official document…
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Japanese Opera Singer Promotes Rwanda-Japan Relations Through Music
by Daniel Sabiiti 8:31 amJapanese Germany based Opera singer Mayumi Sakamoto has launched her solo album showcasing in songs the harmony and relationship between Rwanda and Japan. The 11 song album “Umubano: Harmony from…
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The Mahindra Sponsored Great African Caravan Makes a Stopover in Kigali
by Vincent Gasana 11:23 amA group of twelve artistes passed through Kigali, as they travel the length of Africa, from the Cape to Cairo, in what they are calling The Great African Caravan, to…
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Hailing From a Community that Wiped-out Akagera Lions, Mutangana is Now Conservation Boss
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 12:43 pmAkagera National park is said to have harbored about 300 lions, but there were no lions left a few years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. It’s only two…
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At 53, First Tour du Rwanda Female Champion Still Harbors Cycling Dreams
by Oswald Niyonzima 6:15 pmWhen Gender discrimination was at its highest, a young woman Marie Jeanne Mukankwaya 53 now defied the odds to become the first female to compete with men in the cycling…
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Rwanda has presented plan to revisit agreements with churches in family planning support following senate report which pointed a finger to the churches as sabotaging existing policies. A senate report…
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Court To Decide on Case Involving Woman Who has Been in Coma For a Year
by Oswald Niyonzima 2:59 pmThe Kacyiru primary court in Gasabo district will on November 28 rule on a case involving a Kibagabaga hospital doctor who is alleged to have mishandled a birth case which…
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Kwa Rwahama: Famously Known as a Bus Stop, Meet The Man Behind The Name
by Dan Ngabonziza 5:24 pmThere are fifteen bus stops between Kigali downtown bus park and Kimironko, one of the busiest suburbs of the city, but all of them are just stages until you are…
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Rwanda’s First Lady, Jeannette Kagame has told participants at the International Conference on Family Planning that it is high time for all societies to overcome the old mentality that the…
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Dr Christian Ntirizima, a specialist in palliative care has been working with patients of incurable diseases for the last 10 years, but a case he experienced in 2014 has…
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In 2006, Felix Nshimyumuremyi went to Kigali University Teaching Hospital (CHUK) to visit a relative who was involved in an accident, but when he arrived he found out that the…
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La Gardienne Samosas: The Snack Keeping Kigali Families Together
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 3:35 pmIn the immediate aftermath of the 1994 genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda, Florence Kayihura opened a small shop selling a range of items in Kiyovu – an upscale suburb of…