Team Rwanda rider Renus Byiza Uhiriwe is in awe of his performance that earned him a gold medal in the ongoing 2022 African Continental Road cycling championship taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The National anthem was sung in Egypt on Thursday, March 24, after the 20-year-old won the Under 23 Individual Time Trial (ITT) […]
Rwanda has promised to successfully and safely host the 145th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU) due in Kigali in October 2022. This was announced at the end of 144th IPU Assembly that took place in Indonesia from March 20-24, 2022. Esperance Nyirasafari, the Senate Vice President in charge of Parliamentary Affairs attended the event. It is […]
Kigali Logistics Platform, which is operated by the United Arab Emirates’ logistics firm, DP World, located in Masaka sector in Kicukiro district, has inaugurated its expansion phase including three spacious warehouses and other facilities on an additional 7.5 hectares. The facilities were built within a period of six months and are now operational. Speaking during […]
Nairobi — A three judge-bench has declined to allow for party hopping after the deadline lapses on Saturday pending the hearing and determination of a suit seeking to extend it. The bench led by Justice Hedwig Ongudi noted that it will issue further directions on the petition once it is heard and determined next week […]
Nairobi — The multi-purpose Jahmhuri Sports Ground is set to be opened today afternoon by President Uhuru. The Stadium that has three football pitches, a rugby pitch, athletics track and swimming pool was this morning inspected by the Cabinet Secretary for Sports Amina Mohamed and Sports PS Joe Okudo. It will also have a recreation […]
Nairobi — South B Member of the County Assembly (MCA) Waithera Chege has called on Parliament to come up with a law barring outgoing Governors from running for Senate seats. Waithera who is also the Nairobi County Assembly Deputy Majority Whip, argued that most of the Governors who have served for the two term limit […]
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Kenyans to maintain peace during the electioneering period, noting that the exercise come and go. Speaking on Friday when he joined mourners at the funeral service of Mama Loise Njeri Mbugua at Karinde in Kiambu County, President Kenyatta said violence experienced in past elections shouldn’t be allowed to […]
Close to three years after making a formal application, the DR Congo could be officially admitted into the East African Community when Heads of State meet on Tuesday, March 29. An extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers that precedes the Summit started virtually early morning on Friday, March 25. The Ministers are set to […]
MINISTER of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (Labour, Employment, Youths and the Disabled), Professor Joyce Ndalichako, has urged all workers in the ministry to shun corruption in work places in order to increase public trust. Equally, Prof Ndalichako reminded them to follow up on the government’s efforts to empower youths at all levels, saying […]
TANZANIA Gender Network Programme (TGNP) has said that collaboration between stakeholders and increased public awareness has contributed a lot to the decrease of gender based violence incidents in the country. TGNP Coordinator Zainabu Mmari said here yesterday that people being aware of their rights has helped a lot in efforts to end such incidents. She […]
THE government has formed a partnership with oil companies and stakeholders through Public Private Partnership (PPP) to combat and avert oil spilling in efforts towards preventing marine pollution. The partnership was established over the weekend in the country capital Dodoma at a stakeholders’ meeting on formulation of the Oil Spill Mutual Aid Group (OSMAG), organised […]
KAGERA residents have hailed the government for allocating 1bn/- for the construction of a modern bus stand in Bukoba Municipal Council. Mariam Hassan (25), a petty trader at Kashai Ward explained that the implementation of the long-awaited project would speed development. “We have been waiting for the project for quite a long time. Political differences […]
Nairobi — The build up on social media has been immense and the banter has been huge with Nigeria and Ghana clashing in the first leg of the 2022 FIFA World Cup play-off in Kumasi on Friday night. Videos of Nigeria alighting at the airport in Ghana using a steep steel ladder have been the […]
The minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure (MOICI), Ebrahim Sillah, says the ECOMIG Forces (Senegalese) stationed in the Fonis are not there to aid and abet the ongoing war in the Senegalese region of Cassamance. Speaking to West Coast Radio on Tuesday, the minister denied that the Barrow led government stationed the ECOMIG Forces in […]
As National Assembly candidates crisscross their constituencies and canvassing votes from their electorates in the forthcoming National Assembly Election, Ebrima Sillah, the country’s minister for Information and Communication Infrastructure on Wednesday joined the NPP Kombo South candidate rally at Sanyang village blasting the majority leader, Kebba K. Barrow, over what he described as ‘poor representation’ […]
Lebanese Ambassador to Ghana and President of the Francophone Ambassadors Group, Mr Maher Kheir, has organised a colourful poetry night dubbed “Gardens of Light” to celebrate the cultural heritage of countries within the Francophone community in Ghana, especially Lebanese Francophone culture. The ceremony, which forms part of the 52nd anniversary of the formation of the […]
The Majority and Minority Chief Whips, Frank Annoh-Dompreh and Alhaji Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, yesterday clashed over the ‘continuous’ absence of the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in Parliament to answer questions from Members of the House. This followed an allegation by the Minority Chief Whip and the NDC MP for Asawase that Mr Ofori-Atta had treated the […]
In the absence of legal protections, transgender Zimbabweans are looking abroad or to risky alternatives for gender-affirming services. Ras grew up living like a girl despite never feeling like one. He was raised in a religious family in a small town in Zimbabwe and assigned female at birth. Today, at 36, he uses a binder […]