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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 | 4192 | 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

Mnangagwa congratulates victorious Kagame

President Mnangagwa has congratulated Rwandan President Paul Kagame on his landslide re-election for a fourth term, securing over 99 percent of the vote. During the 377th Zanu-PF Politburo meeting in Harare, Mnangagwa extended his best wis…

Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:35hrs | 265 | 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

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

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

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

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

'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

'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 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

Rwanda, the African version of the Asian Tigers

We may as well call it African version of the Asian Tigers, I mean the phenomenal economic growth and development in Rwanda after a very dark past. From the tears and ashes of the genocide Rwanda rose again like the legendary Phoenix. Live…

Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 19:20hrs | | by Tondorindo

Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe can learn from Rwanda

Zimbabwe should take a leaf from Rwanda's post-genocide reconciliation model as it embarks on its own healing process, President Mnangagwa has said. In an interview at Kigali International Airport after attending the Rwanda Liberation Cele…

Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe journalist, one of the first black female journos to report on the genocide in Rwanda

Long-time Southern African regional correspondent Susan Njanji from Zimbabwe was one of very few black African female journalists to cover the genocide in Rwanda. Here she reflects on the challenges that she's faced when reporting from the…

Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

African countries should adopt Rwanda 2020 vision to boost economy growth & better health facilities

The Rwanda 2020 vision proved to the whole world whatever is lacking, we have means to acquire it not to depend of international aid . The main message is that we should not remain mentally married to the idea that nothing can get moving w…

Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 19:45hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere

Africa waking up from economic slumber

THE Chinese bamboo is an amazing tree. Its seed stays underground for five years without germinating, but when it does, it grows 50 feet in one week. What is important is not how long it delays but how fast it grows. Don't give up on your …

Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 14:42hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere

Letter to UN Secretary-General from RPP

Our Ref: RPP/UNSG-01/21J15/0012/J2015/JK/BM-DRC/FDLR-DA/DRC-1UN Secretary General, the Hon. Ban Ki-moon United Nations Headquarters 405 East 42 Street, New York, NY, 10017, United StatesMalmÃ¶, Sweden, January 20, 2015Your Excellency,Sub: …

Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Rwanda People's Party

Hunting for Eurobonds

Views split on sub-Saharan Africa's debut in the international markets Attracted by the prevailing low interest rates, cash-strapped African countries looking to borrow money on international private markets are increasingly turning to Eur…

Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 20:32hrs | | by Jocelyne Sambira

Big dreams for Rwanda's ICT sector - Success story is grabbing global attention

"The Internet is a needed public utility as much as water and electricity," declared President Paul Kagame at the Transform Africa summit, held in Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, last October to discuss the future of broadband in Africa. Th…

Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 20:32hrs | 18 | by Nirit Ben-Ari

Rwanda Remembers

 How private groups and government try to heal the wounds of genocideIn Rwanda, every corner hides a memory; in the land of a thousand hills, the memories tell of incredible forgiveness, of stories that unite and heal and encourage al…

Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 20:32hrs | 2 | by Noam Shuster-Eliasi

Zimbabwe: Where honouring the dead is a criminal offence

Durban - This week thousands of Rwandans filled Kigali stadium to capacity to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide that left 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead.The ceremony, attended by foreign heads of state, diplomat…

Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Thabo Kunene

Tapping migration wealth to fund development

African diaspora remittances can reduce poverty In a small and stuffy room in midtown Manhattan, some people are filling in forms while others wait patiently in line to submit them. It is spring in New York City but the sweltering heat and…

Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Jocelyne Sambira

Hostility between the DRC and Rwanda

The conflict between Rwanda and the DR Congo has become too complex, too complicated and ever- escalating to be resolved by member states and international community. Shifting blames on basis of ethnic affiliation has become the driving fo…

Published: 05 Aug 2013 at 20:33hrs | 8 | by Louis Gakumba

Rwanda's future biggest challenge?

In 2010 while I was on a visit tour of graduate schools, I ended up at Tufts University in Boston where I met Dr. Peter Uvin, the dean of Fletcher School. One of the questions he asked was "What is Rwanda's Future Biggest Challenge?" I fel…

Published: 13 Jun 2013 at 09:05hrs | | by Louis Gakumba

What if Rwanda declared war on the DRC?

After the publication of the report from the U.N Group of Experts on the Congo crisis, in which Rwanda was accused of supporting the M23, a rebel group fighting in the eastern Congo Democratic, Rwanda has been under tremendous pressure to …

Published: 02 Jan 2013 at 19:51hrs | | by Louis Gakumba

Rwanda Independence Day, July 1st, 2012

Fellow Rwandans,Today, on RwandaâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â¢âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã¶Â¬Â¨âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã»Â¬Â¢s 50th Independence, I would like to congratulate each and every one of you.In the past, as still is, Rwanda is known for the 1994 genocide against Tutsis.18 years af…

Published: 03 Jul 2012 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Louis Gakumba

Rwanda accused of training DRC rebels

DRC - A group of defectors fighting for the M23 rebel movement against the Congolese army say that they were recruited and trained in neighbouring Rwanda against their will.The revelations come after weeks of fighting in the east of the co…

Published: 03 Jun 2012 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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