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Thirty four new cases of the H1N1 flu (Swine Flu) have been reported up-country in the districts of Musanze, Muhanga, Rubavu and Rusizi as of November 8, a statement from the Ministry of Health says.
Practicing journalists and public relation practitioners who have for long been on different paths have promised to work together and bridge the gap in information flow.
Though the Organic Law establishing general provisions governing public institutions has been revised several times, institutions that were to be guided by it are jeopardized by its structure, members of the lower chamber of Parliament yesterday.
THE interim committee of Rwanda National Olympic Committee (RNOC) has advised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to come see what is on ground before making any conclusions.
With increasing nutritional progress, maternal health improvement and implementation of the nine year basic education programme that includes pre-school, Rwanda has been cited as a nation committed to the development of its youngest population.
THE 2009 Cecafa Challenge Cup is set to go after receiving big sponsorship from Orange. The French telecommunications company splashed Rwf99.4m in the annual tournament which still ranks as one of the most prominent soccer tournaments in Africa.
President Paul Kagame's meet the press, is one of the few programmes I enjoy on Rwanda Television.
The roll out of wireless broadband (WiBro) that will ensure seamless internet access around Kigali city is heading in the right direction, according to a new report.
2008/9 national women league champions AS Kigali are scheduled to start pre-season training this weekend ahead of the new league which gets underway on November 29.
NATIONAL sprint champion Islam Mulinda could miss next month's Rendezvous National.
GLOBAL Cycling Club of Holland and France's Castel Sarrasi are some of the elite teams set to compete in the 11th edition of the Tour of Rwanda, slated to run from November 16 to 24.
AMAVUBI Stars head coach Tucak Branko concedes that pressure will be on Amavubi and not Zambia when the two sides wrestle for that elusive 2010 Africa Nations Cup slot this Saturday at Amahoro Stadium.
AMID a raucous atmosphere at the U.J. Esuene stadium on Monday evening, one man sat perfectly still in the VIP tribune.
A crony of the newly-elected Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, has been forced to resign from the government due to a magazine report that links him to a financial scandal.
The group refugee status of tens of thousands of Rwandans who fled their country in the wake of the 1994 genocide could be lifted by the end of 2011, according to UN and Rwandan officials.
The Senate yesterday endorsed the establishment of the National Law Reform Commission that will take over and oversee the formulation and laws.
Gender experts from across Africa have praised the achievements that Rwanda has so far registered in areas of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
PRESIDENT Paul Kagame last evening became the first known Rwandan to lay his hands on the Fifa World Cup trophy at Amahoro National Stadium.
Rwanda has been ranked third, out of nine countries, in the volume of business handled at the Kenyan port of Mombasa. By the first half of this year, the country accounted for 5.9 percent of all the traffic handled by Kenya Ports Authority (KPA).
For the first time in the history of the annual National Children's Summit, children from several refugee camps in the country will be represented.
A meeting of the chiefs of defence forces of Uganda and the DR Congo in Kasese District to discuss the situation of insurgents almost failed to take off yesterday after a disagreement on the agenda and particularly the inclusion of a discussion on the Allied Democratic Forces.
IF SIR Mark Thatcher was the son of an African ruler his conduct would confirm the worst prejudices of the west. Instead, as the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, he is mostly regarded as a wayward, mildly dim embarrassment.
THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested an Angolan for trafficking in over 700 grammes of pure grade cocaine worth millions of Kwacha.
Government is satisfied by the agreement reached between Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) recently, says International Relations and Cooperation Director General, Ayanda Ntsaluba.
Lutheran World Federation (LWF) a Christian based organization, is set to close down its operations in Rwanda following Rwanda's transformation from a state of emergency to a steadily growing nation.
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