[New Times] President Paul Kagame chaired a Cabinet meeting on Monday, January 18, 2021, where strict guidelines were put in place to slow the spread of new Covid-19 infections.

[New Times] The remains of late Father Ubald Rugirangoga will be repatriated to Rwanda for burial after a funeral mass slated for January 27, in the United States.

[New Times] With the reopening of nursery and lower primary schools across the country, over 219,000 continuing and new pupils resumed classes in Northern Province.

[New Times] "We don't want these students in boarding schools to think that they are in prison, but instead, know that what has been temporarily stopped are studies only." -- Minister Uwamariya

[New Times] The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has called upon the public and private institutions as well as individuals to consider shifting to electric vehicles and join the effort to beat air pollution.

[New Times] The national basketball team on Monday, January 18 started training in preparation for the upcoming FIBA Afrobasket 2021 qualifiers window 2 scheduled for February 17 to 21 in Tunisia.

[New Times] Rwanda and Uganda played to a goalless draw in their first game of Group C in the ongoing Total African Nations Championship (CHAN) on Monday, January 18 at Stade de la Reunification in Douala.

[New Times] Government is mulling a vaccination against swine erysipelas in affected pig farming districts as the country seeks to prevent this infectious bacterial disease from spreading to pig farms which are not yet infected.

[New Times] Rwandan horticulture exporters have appealed for lower airfreight charges after an increase in the fee charged to transport their fresh produce to foreign markets has adversely affected their profits. This is they say threatens the develo...

[New Times] Effective Monday, January 18, all nursery, primary and secondary schools will be closed in the City of Kigali, the Ministry of Education has announced.

[New Times] The construction of the Ellen DeGeneres campus which is close to Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park in Kinigi sector of Musanze district is at 50 percent.

[New Times] The 13th edition of Tour du Rwanda that was slated from February 21-28 has been postponed to May 2-9 by Rwanda's cycling governing body following the recent spike in Covid-19 infections.

[New Times] Prof. Thomas Rusuhuzwa Kigabo, the chief economist at the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR), succumbed to Covid-19 on Friday morning. He was 57.

[East African] Google Translate last year added Kinyarwanda as one of the five new languages onto its offering, breaking a four-year deadlock of no language added.

[New Times] It has been a long time since the Amavubi Stars played regional rivals Uganda Cranes.

[UN News] The UN Secretary-General has called for action to ensure accountability for "heinous attacks" in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Wednesday that left a Rwandan peacekeeper dead and another wounded.

[New Times] Rwanda National Police (RNP) has arrested 13 people in City of Kigali after they were found holding a house party and drinking.

[New Times] Popular free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia is calling on Rwandans and citizens from the region to be more involved in curating content about the country, culture and other aspects to reduce underrepresentation.

[New Times] The national football team, Amavubi, will be keen to end a 13 year-winless win against the Uganda Cranes in the opening game of the CHAN tournament slated on Monday, January 18, in Cameroon.

[New Times] Rwanda Cricket Association on Friday, January 15, appointed Leonard Nhamburo as the new head coach for Rwanda Women National Cricket team for the next two years.

[New Times] The Rwandan government has identified opportunities in several local products for exports under the recently launched Africa Continental Free Trade Area.

[New Times] Amavubi striker Ernest Sugira has pleaded with the national football team fans to back the team as they start their CHAN 2020 campaign on Monday, January 18 against arch-rivals Uganda Cranes.

[New Times] The Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA) says that the outbreak of Covid-19 did not impede the exercise of receiving and resettling refugees and asylum-seekers from Libya.

[New Times] Christian Aganze, a physics PhD student at University of California, San Diego in the US, was awarded the Beth Brown Memorial Award for his work on discovering faint stars out of the solar system.

[New Times] The date March 14, 2020 will indeed not be forgotten in Rwanda's history, most notably for being the time when the country reported the first case of Covid-19, a pandemic that would later disrupt most aspects of Rwandans' lifestyle and ec...

[New Times] Effective February, Saturday 16, Public Health Facilities treating Covid-19 patients will commence using health insurance to invoice for treatment, according to a directive by the Ministry of Health.

[African Arguments] Seyoum Mesfin, who was killed in Tigray this week at the age of 71, was Ethiopia's longest-serving foreign minister. His untimely death robs Ethiopia of a man who exemplified the country's tradition of enlightened and progressive ...

[New Times] As nursery and lower primary pupils prepare to resume physical learning, some schools have cited uncompleted new classrooms as one of the challenges to welcoming back learners in the midst of the pandemic.

[New Times] Medical workers have urged caution as the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Rwanda crossed the 10,000-mark, saying it is time to observe preventive measures more than ever before.

[New Times] We are doing everything possible to make the vaccines available. We applied and what remains now is to expedite the process but hopefully, by March they should be here.