Rwanda opens a new border post with Uganda

Rwanda has opened a new border post with Uganda at Rwempasha-Kazinga which is between Rwmpasha sector (Nyagatare district) in Rwanda Read More ...

Rwandese fake Prophet held in Uganda

Mugisha is said to have coned people close to s.80million × A Rwandese fake Prophet has been arrested from Uganda Read More ...

Just In: Kagame Orders Release of his vocal critic ‘Hotel Rwanda Hero’ Rusesabagina

Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda and was serving a 25-year sentence Read More ...

Uganda Arsenal fans to meet President Kagame if they win Premier League

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Tension between Rwanda and DR Congo continues

The Diplomatic tensions between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo are set for a new low after government of Rwanda Read More ...

No journalist should languish behind bars

Dear Press Freedom Supporter, × In early October, a court in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, acquitted three Iwacu TV journalists—Damascene Mutuyimana, Read More ...

Rwanda President blames DR Congo deaths to irresponsible world leaders

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday shrugged off a soaring death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo, distancing his Read More ...

Africa’s CSOs hold a joint Post-COP27 and Pre-COP28 continental strategy workshop in Kigali

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Rwanda selects its EALA assembly members Rwanda has become the latest country to pick its representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), with the current regional parliament set to complete its term in office in a few days’ time. Six out of the nine elected MPs (representing 66 per cent) are women, with the line-up including five new faces. Those joining EALA for the first time include Caroline Kayonga Rwivanga, Ambassador. Mathias Harebamungu, Aisha Nyiramana, Clement Musangabatware, and Alodie Iradukunda. Incumbents who will be returning to the Assembly after December 17 include Ambassador. Fatuma Nyirakobwa Ndangiza, Francine Rutazana, Françoise Uwumukiza, and Alex Bahati. Unlike other Members who chose Member by Political representative, in Rwanda they have a unique way ofpicking its EALA representatives to the Assembly. The formula for choosing Rwandan members of EALA follows the principle of inclusivity and consensus democracy that have defined the country’s politics since the end of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. As such, the nominees that sailed through during Monday’s elections by members of the bi-cameral parliament (Chamber of Deputies and Senate) come from the different key players across the country’s political spectrum, including political parties and special interest groups, namely women, youth and persons with disabilities. Six of the newly elected EALA members represent political parties, with Ndangiza, Harebamungu and Rwivanga fronted by the governing Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), while Nyiramana and Musangabatware are from Social Democratic Party (PSD). PSD is led by Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Vincent Biruta.Rutazana stood on the ticket of the Liberal Party (PL), which last week re-elected Speaker Donatile Mukabalisa as its Chairperson. Uwumukiza’s bid was sponsored by the National Women Council, while Iradukunda and Bahati were fronted by the National Youth Council and National Council of Persons with Disabilities, respectively. Some 24 individuals submittedtheir bids for the EALA race and nine individuals made it to the EALA for a five-year term, which can only be renewed once. Rwanda’s Martin Ngoga, the former prosecutor-general who first joined EALA in 2015 and won’t be retaining his seat, has been serving as the Speaker of the 4th East African Assembly. The Assembly members are drawn from East African Community (EAC) Partner States and the regional bloc consists of Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Rwanda has become the latest country to pick its representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), with the current Read More ...

Angola Meeting: Kagame, Tshisekedi strike new peace deal

The deal means M23 rebels will take order to withdraw immediately A new agreement has been struck between DR Congo Read More ...