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United States Rwandan Community Abroad (USRCA) in collaboration with Indianapolis Rwandan Diaspora Network/Umubano have organized Rwanda Youth Professionals Conference which will be focusing on how Rwandan youth in diaspora can play a significant role in social economic development of Rwanda It schedules on May 25, 2019 at the University of…

The Stirling Foundation and doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in partnership with Gikongoro Catholic Diocese , goverment of Rwanda and Groupe Scolaire Mere Du Verbe have launched a prestigious project aimed at constructing school’s infrastructures in order to create facilitative environment for the success of the school. Gs Mere du Verbe…

Rwanda, with other few places to have witnessed Genocide, will perpetually continue to suffer from Genocide’s consequences; including a tendency to deny or defy it-a process commonly known as Genocide denial. It’s been only 25 years since the crime of all crimes was committed in Rwanda and despite a remarkable…

Rwandan youth, officials and Rwandan friends from around the World have gathered in Politecnico di Milano university located in Italy’s city of Milan for a youth Convention namely; Rwanda YouthConnekt Convention 2019. The convention, themed ‘Globally Connecting Opportunities and the Next Generation of Leaders through Technology’ was organized by IRYD…

Kigali has been ranked the second most popular destination in Africa for hosting international conferences and events by ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association). Cape Town is ranked first in Africa. Last year, Kigali was ranked third behind Cape Town and Marrakesh. ICCA represents the world’s leading association in handling,…

Unhappiness over the delay in setting a new date and perhaps new venue for the 18th Conference of the Parties to the UN’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has boiled over into the open. The Switzerland-based IWMC-World Conservation Trust (IWMC) and U.S.-based…

One team, ten members – everyone has their own incredible story and hopes. Six girls and four boys under 18 years, coming from three refugee camp (Gihembe, Mahama and Nyabiheke) both Congolese and Burundians, with their background and challenging experiences, to part to this competition with the one goal: Demonstrate…

Being resource-rich but almost endlessly poor. This is the sad and most contradictory reality of the lives of many African rural communities living near the continent’s natural resource-rich national parks. Not so for Botswna’s Chobe Enclave rural community that is in the resource-rich wilderness area near the even more resource-rich…

As 100 days of commemoration are still ongoing, Rwandan communities around the world are gathering to honor the victims of Genocide Against Tutsi in 1994. This May, 4th, more than 600 Rwandans and their friends met in Nottingham city for the 25th commemoration of Genocide Against Tutsi. The youth-dominated community…

If you think rural to urban migration only applies to human beings think again. In Botswana it now applies to elephants as well. Previously known to roam in rural areas, Botswana’s ever-increasing elephants are now ‘spilling’ from the iconic Chobe National Park into the nearby Town of Kasane where they…

The Botswana minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Honourable Onkokame Mokaila said that if Africans do not use their wildlife they would remain beggars forever. Minister Mokaila said that the biggest threat to successful wildlife conservation and to economic wellbeing in Africa is because the outsiders (western countries…

They call them the ‘600’. These rugged men who did the unimaginable. True warriors. Who paved the way for the end of the genocide. They were soldiers who had accompanied the senior politicians of the Rwanda Patriotic Front to Kigali for the implementation of the peace accord that had been…

At least 22 people, on Friday, completed a three-week ‘Firefighting and Rescue’ course at the Police Training Schoo (PTS) Gishari in Rwamagana District. Participants were drawn from Rwanda National Police (RNP), Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) and Airport staff. The emergency response course, the first of its kind, was organized and…

Rwandans are drawing on their heritage to shape a modern culture that celebrates passion, care, and creativity. Even in the pitch black of a Rwandan morning, you can hear the birds singing. There’s something confidently optimistic about the songs, as if the black-headed weavers already know that blue skies lay…

A man suspected of dealing in hard drugs was arrested in the City of Kigali, on Monday. Hervé Simbare, a Burundian national working with one of the banks, was arrested red-handed with 14 sachets of cocaine. Hard drugs are described as substances that can cause severe addiction and damage to…

Botswana and Rwanda have shown in recent years indicators of growth and development that stand out in their region. The key: a long-term vision Botswana and Rwanda have been characterized as the economies with the highest economic growth in Africa in recent years. Both nations have built an efficient model…

The subject became a matter of concern when Rwandans in Canada gathered in Toronto to pay their tributes to over one million people who were killed during 100 days of Genocide Against Tutsi in 1994. During the session of April, 20, Rwandan Special Advisor in Military Affairs to the United…

According to Andreas Norlen, Sweden’s Speaker of Parliament, the humanity is risking to experience another Genocide if the world hasn’t learned anything from Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi. The Speaker expressed his concern during the commemoration of over one million people who were brutally murdered in 1994 Genocide Against Tutsi.…

Rwanda’s aggressive approach towards technological inclusion is fruiting exceptional results as numbers of internet users gradually loft up every time statistics are unveiled. According to Rwanda Utilities and Regulatory Authority (RURA)’s recent report, Rwandans who use internet have reached 52.1% of the population; which is 6.1 million, in the last…

Rwanda’s remarkable development is now a worldly trademark of hope to all other post-war countries. It’s been 25 years since the country faced the worst tragedy human race can ever face but despite bitter consequences, the country has now taken vital ambitions to uproot poverty and head towards development path.…