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KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was sworn into office on Sunday for a five-year term, after a landslide win in last month's election extended his near quarter century in office.
The New Times is a national English-language newspaper in Rwanda. It was established in 1995 shortly after the Rwandan genocide. A Kinyarwanda-language weekly called Izuba Rirashe was previously published. [1] The New Times is published in Kigali from Monday to Saturday, with its sister paper the Sunday Times, appearing on Sundays.
Website. www.kigalicity.gov.rw. Kigali (Kinyarwanda pronunciation: [ci.ɡɑ́.ɾi]) is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali is a relatively new city.
96,278 (2017) Website. www.kgm.rw. The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there. [1] There is a visitor centre for students and others wishing to understand the events leading up to the genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. The Centre is a permanent memorial to ...
Paul Kagame (/ kəˈɡɑːmeɪ / ⓘ kə-GAH-may; born 23 October 1957) is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the President of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded Rwanda in 1990. The RPF was one of the parties of the conflict during ...
Antoine Kambanda. Antoine Kambanda (born 10 November 1958) is a Rwandan prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Kigali since 2019. He was Bishop of Kibungo from 2013 to 2018. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 28 November 2020, making him the first cardinal from Rwanda. [1]
On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutu, was shot down with surface-to-air missiles as their jet prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda; both were killed. The assassination set in motion the Rwandan genocide, one of the bloodiest events of the ...
The Rwandan television industry is made 12 TV stations. 84% of TV stations owned by private (10 out of 12) While 8% and 8% are owned by public and Religious organisations respectively. The state-owned Rwandan Broadcasting Agency runs the TV station Rwanda Television (RTV). [11]