Kigali, Rwanda | THE INDEPENDENT | Rwanda and Uganda have agreed to resume collaboration among their security organs which had been stopped when the relations between the countries soured at the start of last year. This was part of the resolutions in the communique from the Ad hoc committee meeting between …
Read More »Roadshow to help Rwandan businesses tap into AfCFTA
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced a roadshow in Kigali to show the Rwandan private sector how it can become a primary beneficiary of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which will provide significant opportunities to access the largely untapped markets and …
Read More »Rwanda’s grand vision for future leaves poor in Kigali on the curb
Kigali, Rwanda | AFP | Slum dwellers in Kigali are accusing city authorities of razing their homes without paying compensation, stirring anger among poorer Rwandans who feel marginalised by a government-led push to modernise the capital. This month, the first of thousands of homes slated for demolition in Kigali’s unplanned …
Read More »Uganda-Rwanda talks back on track
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Rwanda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe will lead a high level delegation to Uganda today for a second meeting to discuss the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Angola in August. This second meeting that aims at easing …
Read More »Second Uganda-Rwanda talks to be held in Kampala next month
❇AGREED 🇺🇬 🇷🇼 ✅ Cease hostile propaganda in all media ✅ Rwanda provided a list of people they say are detained in Uganda ✅ Agreed to finalize the extradition treaty ✅ Uganda to release all Rwandans that will have no charges to answer ✅ Those with criminal cases to answer …
Read More »Kigali photo fest
Rwanda gets contemporary art festival | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Photography is more than the art of taking a picture. It is a powerful story-telling tool. It is, therefore, not surprising that it is increasingly being courted as a medium to narrate the diverse African experience on one stage called the …
Read More »Uganda and Rwanda’s slippery slope
Why the current situation between Kampala and Kigali needs to be deescalated before it leads to disaster THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | The conflict between Uganda and Rwanda is escalating and, if not arrested, will most likely lead to war. Last week, Uganda claimed that Rwandan troops …
Read More »Rwanda-Uganda feud: Ugandan traders turn to other markets
The impasse lies in the hands of two leaders –President Museveni and Paul Kagame. Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Ugandan traders are slowly turning to other markets in the region to sell their goods as the border standoff between Kigali and Kampala continues into the third month with …
Read More »Rwanda’s Supreme Court decriminalizes cartooning, except for president
Kigali, Rwanda | KELLY RWAMAPERA | The Supreme Court in Rwanda has removed provisions in the penal code that criminalize drawing of ‘humiliating and defamatory’ cartoons against public servants and religious practices, but kept an exemption for the President. The ruling on a constitutional petition that had been filed by a …
Read More »The Rwanda-Uganda conflict
How Kampala has mismanaged her relations with Kigali and why Rwanda closed her border THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Let me do what politicians always do – claim they run for office due to popular demand. Many people have been asking me to comment on the heightened …
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