It is one of the most disturbing images on the internet, like something out of an especially horror film, except that it is very much real. If anything encapsulates the…
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Dismissed, Resigned After Poor Score in Accountability Test
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 7:17 amRwanda government has continued to remind officials, whether appointed through the famous ‘Yellow Paper’, or elected through direct and hierarchical voting, that it is important to serve the people with…
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In a continent that is diversely rich both ethnically and culturally, it is not surprising to see that the literature which emerged from Africa is equally diverse and multifaceted. Dealing…
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We Were Neighbours of the Monster – Witnesses from Karambo Portray Seraphin Twahirwa
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 3:57 pmYou have not heard much about the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi until you visit Karambo cell of Gatenga sector in Kicukiro district to hear testimonies of the citizens who, in…
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From the Horse carriage of 1880s with an average speed of 30km/hour to the Koenigsegg Agera RS with 447 km/h today or the 211 km/h of the V8 engine which…
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“Joyless Rwanda”? Depends On Which Rwanda You Visit, The Real One, Or The One With Which You Arrive
by Vincent Gasana 11:27 amA beautiful, clean, joyless country, haunted by the “ghosts of genocide”, the verdict of travel writer Bridget Hilton-Barber, and her travelling companion, Hugh Fraser, who we assume may or may…
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The private sector has taken up an assignment to make sure that Rwanda’s minerals are exported only refined, in order to increase return on investment and to reinforce foreign currency…
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What We Learnt At Youth Connect, Is Rwanda Journalism Yet To Fully Grasp Its Purpose?
by Vincent Gasana 12:00 amListen to President Kagame at almost any address he gives, and if the words accountability, responsibility, are not explicitly mentioned, they are implicit in what he says. And so it…
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Is America Calling For Peace In DRC, While Stoking The Fires of Conflict?
by Vincent Gasana 9:08 pmThe United States Treasury department’s inclusion of a senior member of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), on its list of sanctioned individuals, over the crisis in the Democratic Republic of…
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A Voice of Reason, Transmission Of Hate…What A Social Dust Up Reveals About Rwandans
by Vincent Gasana 9:37 pmSocial media is an unedifying place, where out of the blue, someone can authoritatively assert the sky to be green and the grass blue, and he or she can be…
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Rubavu, the Rwanda’s ‘Vibrant and Happy City’ of Vision 2050
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 4:54 pmFrom the Rwanda’s Vision of becoming a middle income economy by 2035 and a developed country by 2050, planners are working around the clock to put in place mechanisms and…
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At 90, Sr. Mukanaho Pioneer In Rwanda’s Education Has More
by Jean de la Croix Tabaro 10:54 pmSister Marie Jean Baptiste Mukanaho a member of Benebikira congregation of Rwanda and founding headmistress of a famous school-GS Notre Dame du Verbe Kibeho is a personality one would wish…