KIGALI – Rwanda is looking to domestic savings as a bigger source of capital for investment, business expansion and job creation, as the government seeks to make the financial sector a bolster of the country’s economic growth. Prime Minister Dr. Justin Nsengiyumva told Parliament on Friday that domestic savings had risen from 14.7% of GDP […]
PLO Lumumba’s Paul and Corinthians lesson for an Africa waiting for answers
KIGALI – Celebrated Kenyan scholar and distinguished lawyer PLO Lumumba has spent years writing letters to African presidents on issues he considers critical to the continent. Some respond. Others do not. So when he was asked what he thinks when most of them don’t reply, the Kenyan professor did not complain about the silence. Instead, […]
Jeannette Kagame: The world must deliver on health solutions it already has
BUTARO, Rwanda – First Lady Jeannette Kagame and American philanthropist Bill Gates opened the inaugural Paul Farmer Butaro Dialogues on Health Equity and Innovation with a shared view that the next advances in global health should focus on making proven solutions available to the people who need them most. Before the public dialogue began at […]
Kagame wants Africa to help build the AI future, not just consume it
GENEVA – Today, governments are investing billions, technology companies are unveiling increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models, and policymakers are racing to write rules for a technology many believe could reshape economies. Yet amid the accelerating global race to dominate artificial intelligence, President Paul Kagame is urging the world to focus on not who wins the […]
ROUND UP: Rwanda’s embassies abroad celebrate Liberation day
Last weekend Rwanda marked the 32nd anniversary of Liberation Day (Kwibohora32). Diplomatic missions across the world brought together government officials, diplomats, members of the Rwandan community and friends of Rwanda to commemorate the country’s journey from tragedy to transformation. From North America to Europe and the Middle East, the celebrations highlighted Rwanda’s achievements over the […]
The biggest asset in Rwanda’s refugee camps is its people, not aid
KIGALI – Around the world, humanitarian agencies are grappling with continued conflicts displacing millions of people, yet the funding available to support them is steadily shrinking. As that gap widens, Rwanda is advancing a different idea of protecting the future of refugees not through aid delivery, but by creating opportunities for refugees to build livelihoods […]
Why parents hold the key to ending teenage pregnancy
KIGALI – Every day in Rwanda, more than 60 girls become pregnant before the age of 19. By the end of the year, that number surpasses 23,000 cases. This interrupts education, exposing young mothers to serious health risks, and increasing vulnerabilities for newborns. For years, public discussion has largely focused on adolescents themselves. But at […]
Africa calls for detention systems built on women and children
KIGALI – For generations, detention systems across much of the world have largely been designed with one inmate in mind: the adult male. But as African human rights leaders gathered in Kigali on Wednesday, they highlighted that this long-standing model has left women and children facing risks that conventional prison systems were never built to […]
A survivor returns to Paris 32 years later seeking answers that history still owes
PARIS – Thirty-two years after surviving the Genocide against the Tutsi and arriving in France as a severely wounded teenager, Jeanne Uwimbabazi returned to Paris on Tuesday not simply to remember the past, but to confront questions that remain unresolved. Standing before France’s first permanent memorial dedicated to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against […]
Africa Forward Summit Exposes Frustration Over Unequal Global Systems
NAIROBI – The Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi has brought into sharp focus long-standing concerns over how Africa is positioned within global political and financial systems, with leaders calling for a shift from aid-based relations to investment-driven and equal partnerships. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned that Africa’s exclusion from global decision-making is no longer […]