[New Times] Heavy rains and lightning have killed 25 people and left 51 others injured across the country since January this year, according to statistics by the Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA).

[New Times] The Inspector-General of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), Lieutenant General Jacques Musemakweli has died. He was 59.

[East African] The value of investments in Rwanda fell drastically by almost half from $2.46 billion in 2019 to $1.3 billion in 2020 primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic that affected the economy and investors worldwide.

[New Times] Although pretrial detention should still be applied where it is deemed necessary and is supported by overwhelming evidence, there is reason to push for more people to be tried when they not incarcerated, the Spokesman for the National Pub...

[New Times] Rwanda football legends recently launched a union dubbed FAPA (Former Amavubi Players' Association), with the aim of offering their contribution in football development in the country.

[New Times] Veteran shooting guard Kenneth Gasana has insisted that the players are optimistic about staging a better showing in Widow 2 of the African Basketball Championship (Afrobasket) qualifiers as the national team departs for Tunisia.

[New Times] Rwanda National Police (RNP) has arrested three men suspected for being behind series of forgery and defrauding traders in Kigali assorted goods worth over Frw100 million.

[New Times] The government has unveiled a revised budget for the 2020/21 financial year in which it has allocated Rwf29.3 billion to subsidize public transport to offset the losses incurred by transport operators.

[New Times] The Ministry of Infrastructure on Thursday, February 11, issued a public notice putting yet more emphasis on the need for all people intending to travel using the country's land borders to first test and show a negative Covid-19 test in a...

[New Times] The Ministry of Education on Thursday, February 11, temporarily shut down Gatsibo-based Gakoni Adventist College, in Kiramuruzi sector, following a student's strike that destroyed the school's property.

[New Times] The number of people who have contracted cancer since 2015 has more than doubled, rising from 2,115 cases to 5,040 in 2019, the Director of Cancer Diseases Unit at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), Marc Hagenimana, has said.

[East African] Rwanda plans to increase its 2021/2022 budget by Rwf219 billion ($220.8 million) as the government battles shocks from the global pandemic and seeks to revive the economy.

[East African] As Rwanda prepares to receive a million Covid-19 vaccines later this month, Minster of Health Daniel Ngamije says community engagement and collaboration among countries is crucial for the vaccine to be effective.

[New Times] The national football team players and coaching staff will get huge bonuses after Rwanda's impressive performance at the 2020 CHAN tournament in Cameroon according to Guy Didier Rurangayire, the Director of Sports in the Ministry of Sport...

[New Times] Nyanza District Mayor Erasme Ntazinda says the reintroduction of traditional sports will boost cultural tourism in the area as plans to construct State-of-the-art Nyanza Stadium are ongoing.

[East African] As Rwanda prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in June, it is walking a tightrope due to the prolonged impact of the pandemic as well as increasing pressure to improve its human rights record.

[New Times] The government of Rwanda, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on Tuesday, deployed another set of robots in the country, in a move that seeks to strengthen national response to Covid-19 pandemic.

[New Times] The World Bank Group is preparing a $500 million financing facility for Rwanda to be announced in coming days.

[New Times] Former players of the national football team Amavubi have written a three-page open letter highlighting key issues needed to develop football in Rwanda.

[New Times] With five months until the 2020 Olympic Games, Rwandan athletes' hopes to secure qualification to represent the country at the games are in jeopardy due to failure to get competitions in which they can get qualification.

[New Times] Vincent de Gaulle Nzamwita, the former president of Rwanda Football Association (FERWAFA), says he will not run again as president of the country's football governing body next year.

[New Times] Rwanda exported 43,237 kilogrammes of flowers, earning $467,544 (Rwf456 million) in the week ending February 7, according to data from the National Agricultural Export Development Board (NAEB).

[New Times] The City of Kigali has deployed 73 pulse oximeters in Gasabo District to help covid-19 patients on home-based care.

[New Times] The government of Rwanda in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) will on Tuesday, deploy another set of robots, in a move that will strengthen the country's fight against the pandemic, officials have said.

[New Times] RwandAir, the national carrier, has suspended flights to three southern African countries amid concerns over a new Covid-19 variant there.

[New Times] It was a race against time for many businesses and shoppers in the capital Kigali on the evening of the first day of reopening following a three-week lockdown.

[WHO] One hundred, and seventy (170) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3453 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases sixteen thousand, six hundred, and twenty-one (16621). To date, twelve thousand, six hundre...

[New Times] As the government continues to mobilize funds to invest in recreational wetlands in Kigali City, Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has committed to encourage ecotourism investments among the private sector.

[New Times] The 21-day lockdown that was recently imposed on Kigali has had a tremendous impact, reducing new Covid-19 cases in the city by 72 percent according to the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) Director-General.

[New Times] AS Kigali football club on Tuesday, February 9 left for Tunisia ahead of their first-leg encounter against CS Sfaxien in the final round of the CAF Confederation Cup, in Tunis, on February 13.