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Munetsi back for Rwanda clash

The Zimbabwe senior national soccer team will face Rwanda on Tuesday in a 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Group C encounter at Orlando Stadium, buoyed by the return of vice-captain Marshal Munetsi.The Warriors' hopes of reaching the World C…

Published: 08 Sep 2025 at 13:07hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe, Rwanda strengthen ties

The third session of the Zimbabwe-Rwanda Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation (JPCC) concluded yesterday in Kigali with the signing of five Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), marking a new chapter in bilateral relations.The agreements…

Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 09:04hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter

Rwanda dumps Central African bloc in dispute with DRC

Rwanda has said it would withdraw from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), underscoring diplomatic tensions in the region over an offensive this year by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…

Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 18:10hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter

Rwandan refugees in Zimbabwe accused of fuelling anti-Kagame agenda

Zimbabwe is harbouring a covert network of Rwandan refugees opposed to President Paul Kagame's government who are accused of engaging in clandestine operations aimed at sabotaging diplomatic ties between Harare and Kigali, while spreading …

Published: 21 May 2025 at 11:16hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter

Rwanda recruits second group of Zimbabwe teachers

Rwanda is set to recruit more than 150 Zimbabwean teachers in a second wave of recruitment under a bilateral skilled worker exchange programme designed to bolster educational capacity and deepen cooperation between the two nations.The recr…

Published: 12 May 2025 at 18:08hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter

Felix Tshisekedi single handedly sold the DRC to Trump

The news that Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President FÃ©lix Tshisekedi has proposed selling mineral rights to the United States in exchange for military support has left many in disbelief as the situation continues to evolve. As of M…

Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 09:29hrs | 4191 | by Staff reporter

Rwanda expels Belgium diplomats

Rwanda has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium, its former colonial ruler, following European Union sanctions on senior Rwandan officials. The move comes amid accusations that Kigali is backing the M23 rebel group, which has been capturin…

Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 12:04hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter

Rwanda-backed rebels occupy a 2nd major city in Congo's mineral-rich east

Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, the government said Sunday, as M23 rebels confirmed they were in the city to restore order after it was abandoned by Congolese forces.The Congo River All…

Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 10:56hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter

Rwanda donates maize meal to Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has received a donation of 1,000 tonnes of maize meal from Rwanda as part of the global response to President Mnangagwa's appeal following the El Nino-induced drought that has affected the country and much of Southern Africa. This…

Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 07:54hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter

Paul Kagame wins Rwanda's presidential elections

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has won the country's presidential election with 99% of the vote, according to preliminary election results released late Monday evening.Kagame had won 99% of the 79% of ballots counted so far, the country's e…

Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 07:02hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter

Rwanda donates 1 000t maize to Zimbabwe

Rwanda has donated 1,000 tonnes of maize to Zimbabwe to aid in its fight against the El Nino-induced drought, as announced by Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Ambassador Frederick Shava. This donation follows Pr…

Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 08:11hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

UK Indian ex-PM's Rwanda asylum project scrapped

Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he would scrap a controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda in his first major policy announcement since winning a landslide election victory.The …

Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 11:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Rwandese businessman shot dead in Harare

A Rwandese national was shot dead after armed robbers broke into his house in Harare on Friday night, police said.Samuel Habimana was shot in the neck at his Mainway Meadows home in Waterfalls when a four-man gang forced their way into the…

Published: 19 May 2024 at 12:05hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter

Hats Off to Zimbabwean Teachers, the Embassy and other Zimbabweans in Rwanda for Standing With the Warriors

Dear Editor Allow me to salute the Zimbabwean teachers seconded to Rwanda (other Zimbabweans in Rwanda) for gallantly supporting the Warriors during the two World Cup 2026 qualifiers in Huye, Rwanda. The supporters raised the Zimbabwean fl…

Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 09:50hrs | 24 | by Cde Joe

Warriors, Rwanda play goalless draw in WCQ Group C opener

Rwanda 0 - 0 ZimbabweZimbabwe played a goalless draw against Rwanda in Wednesday's opening match of Group C of the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers.The game marked the first time the Warriors played a competitive match since the lifting of the FI…

Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 20:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Brito targets bright start

AS the Warriors return to competitive international football after nearly two years of banishment by Fifa, coach Baltemar Brito wants to open a new chapter with the first Group C 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifier away to Rwanda at Huye Stadium…

Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Unions query Zimbabwe / Rwanda teachers deal

TEACHERS unions have raised concern over the conditions of service for their counterparts who were recently deployed to Rwanda, saying they were being treated unfairly.In October, 159 teachers, meant to boost Rwanda's education system, wer…

Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Kagame expected in Harare

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is expected to visit Harare as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.This comes about two months after Mnangagwa visited Rwanda to attend…

Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean teachers told not to meddle in Rwanda politics

GOVERNMENT has  warned 159 teachers who departed for Rwanda after passing the selection process to stay away from that county's politics and stick to their teaching mandate.Rwanda conducted interviews for Zimbabwean teachers in August…

Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

200 Rwanda-bound Zimbabweans teachers complete training

At least 200 Zimbabwean educators will this month leave for Rwanda after successfully completing the pre-departure training yesterday under a worker-exchange agreement struck between the two countries last year.The two nations last year ag…

Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe, Rwanda relations put to test again

ZIMBABWE'S diplomatic relations with Rwanda face a new test as it emerged a prominent Zanu-PF and anti-sanctions activist has launched a tirade against President Paul Kagame.Apart from denouncing the Rwandan leader on his digital platforms…

Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe claims to have excess teachers

GOVERNMENT has defended its decision to export teachers to Rwanda saying there was an excess of educators in the country although teachers' unions claimed there was a shortfall of 90 000 educators at public schools.A total of 491 teachers …

Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Rwandese jet into Zimbabwe for teachers interviews

OFFICIALS from Rwanda's Education ministry are in the country to conduct interviews with local teachers who have shown interest to relocate to the east African country.Rwandese Education ministry secretary Charles Karakye told journalists …

Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean teachers undergo exams for Rwandan jobs

ZIMBABWEAN teachers who have applied to work in Rwanda following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries will this week go through virtual examinations before they are selected to work in the central Af…

Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

491 Zimbabwean teachers up for Rwandan jobs

MORE than 491 Zimbabwean educators have been registered to undergo job interviews next week for possible recruitment by the Rwandan government under a worker-exchange agreement struck between Harare and Kigali last year.The exercise is bei…

Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'We're not far from Rwanda in 1994,' warned Biti. Because we're cursed with great man who're easily corrupted by power

"He (John Kumalo) is a big man, in this place, your brother. His shop always full of men, talking as you have heard. But they say you must hear him at a meeting, he and Dubula and a brown man named Tomlinson. They say he speaks like a bull…

Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 17:56hrs | 14 | by Nomusa Garikai

Will 11 SADC leaders ask Rwanda CHOGM 2022 to follow them and lower election standard to readmit Zimbabwe

Rwanda is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 next week, 20 to 25 June 2022. President Mnangagwa has, no doubt, been lobbying hard for Zimbabwe to be re-admitted to the Commonwealth. The regime is notorious fo…

Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:16hrs | 14 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling

A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.The number of those due to be put on the flight had dwindl…

Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

UK sends asylum seekers to Rwanda

The British government was to send a first plane carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda yesterday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy.A chartered plane was to leave one of London's airports overnight and l…

Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe

A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platforms.He is accompanied by a lanky dark b…

Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 31 | by Dumisani Muleya

Rwanda, Zimbabwe relations in spotlight

PARLIAMENT has summoned Foreign Affairs minister Frederick Shava to explain why Zimbabwe brought in, harboured and buried one of the world's most wanted genocidaires, Protais Mpiranya, the last of the major fugitives indicted by the Intern…

Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Schools defy govt on fee

SCHOOLS are defying a government directive that they should not turn away pupils who have not paid school fees.When schools opened for the second term on May 4, the Primary and Secondary Education ministry (MoPSE) directed school authoriti…

Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Rwanda genocide fugitive found buried at Mbudzi

THE more than two-decade-long hunt for one of the world's most wanted  Rwandan genocide fugitives Protais Mpiranya has come to end after his grave was found at Granville Cemetery in Harare.Mpiranya, the former commander of the preside…

Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Uganda's 'preferred' next President General Muhoozi celebrates birthday

Ugandan Army General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is set to celebrate his birthday on the 24th of April and Uganda is buzzing with messages urging the General to take over from President Yoweri Museveni. Uganda's Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka i…

Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 17:20hrs | 2 | by Nicholas Ncube

What Rwanda did to bring real reconciliation after brutal genocide is exactly what Zimbabwe refuses to do

The international community today, commemorates the beginning of one of the darkest, most horrific, and barbaric incidents in world history - the Rwanda genocide of April 7 to July 15, 1994, in which over 800,000 Tutsi, moderate Hutu, and …

Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe mulls Rwanda-style co-operatives model

GOVERNMENT is considering adopting a Rwanda-style co-operatives model as it seeks to reactivate community-driven development projects, NewsDay Business can reveal.Co-operatives gained prominence at independence in 1980, when the government…

Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe under renewed pressure to give up Rwandan genocide suspect

United Nations investigators tracking one of the most notorious killers in the Rwandan genocide believe he is hiding in Zimbabwe and are launching a new effort to convince authorities in Harare to allow the 60-year-old fugitive to face tri…

Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:31hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe regime's shameless incompetence only serves to reinforce colonial stereotypes that Africans just talk but seldom delive

As per my usual daily routine, I pray to Jehovah God as the first thing I do (and, the first Person I talk to), then converse with my wife, and then get my daily dose of the morning news (both local and international) - I could not help be…

Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:29hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

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